Articles Tagged: Officer-involved shooting

During a chase, the man's vehicle left the road and came to a stop. Within seconds officers reported that shots were fired and that one of them had been shot.

The shooting killed David Vanderhamm and injured his stepfather, John Coppes. A review by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office cleared the three Cedar Rapids officers involved in the shooting.

An Iowa City police officer has been put on paid administrative leave after an officer-involved shooting Monday that involved a suicidal subject.

Police and first responders were on the scene of a fatal Waterloo officer-involved shooting in which a man was killed and two officers were injured on Sunday.

Officials have released the names of three Cedar Rapids police officers who shot and killed a man who was armed and making threats on April 6.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety has released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Saturday night in northeast Cedar Rapids.

When officers entered the residence, they encountered a male subject “armed with two knives that ran at the officers,” a news release from the Fort Dodge Police Department states.

Five Cedar Rapids officers fired 63 rounds at the driver of a vehicle after he led them on a high-speed chase while firing an AR-15 at them in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. A new report from the Linn County Attorney says those officers were justified in their use of deadly force.

The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation has released the names of five Cedar Rapids police officers who were involved in a shooting on Jan. 1.

A Cedar Rapids man who was killed by police Monday after leading officers on a car chase has been identified as 20-year-old Michael Griffin by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

The passenger that got out of a vehicle that led Cedar Rapids Police on a chase ending in a shootout Monday morning was a juvenile, according to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 62 years in prison for pointing a shotgun at one officer and trying to kill another. The officers said his actions were “deliberate and with purpose” and he traumatized both them.

An East Dubuque man was shot Tuesday by a Delaware County Deputy who was attempting to take the man into custody in relation to the fatal shooting of a Fareway employee in Monticello.

Also, police officer justified in shooting, AG Office says

A Linn County jury found a Cedar Rapids man guilty of 13 charges for pointing, and aiming a shotgun at two police officers in July 2022. He faces up to 83 years in prison.