Articles Tagged: Officer-involved shooting

Two officers shot twelve times at the man, who had pointed a gun at the officers and fired during a traffic stop.

A man who was shot by Cedar Rapids police officers Saturday has been identified by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation as Brandon Lee Nelson, 23, of Cedar Rapids.

A Black man was unarmed when Akron police chased him on foot and killed him in a hail of gunfire, but officers believed he had shot at them earlier from a vehicle and feared he was preparing to fire again, authorities said Sunday at a news conference.

A man died early Wednesday in a shootout with a police officer outside a convenience store in the eastern Iowa city of Davenport, police said.

The Linn County Attorney’s Office has decided criminal charges are not warranted against a Cedar Rapids Police reserve officer who fired three shots at a man in a vehicle as the man struck the officer with his car Dec. 17.

A grand jury declines to bring charges against a Tama County deputy who fatally shot a Chelsea man during a standoff last year. Authorities said the deputy fired his weapon after the man fired his handgun during the standoff.

Cedar Rapids Reserve Officer Scott Fruehling, who has been employed with the agency since September 1994, will not perform any police duties while the officer-involved shooting is being investigated, according to a news release.

Cedar Rapids police still were searching for a suspect Saturday after an officer was hit by a vehicle during an attempted traffic stop Friday night on 32nd Street NE.

Juan Cavazos was not hit by gunfire, but suffered injuries when he subsequently crashed the vehicle in rural Kossuth County, police said.

“Suicide by cop” situations have risen in Iowa and across the country. The increase could be spurred by the pandemic, which has caused higher rates of depression and more suicide attempts by young people, but it’s a challenge for law enforcement.

Dewey Dale Wilfong III, 28, was shot by a Tama County deputy Thursday evening after officers responded to a call of shots being fired.

The Jones County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday released a short segment of body camera video showing the fatal shooting of a man with a knife Aug. 31 near Martelle.

The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has determined the Aug. 31 fatal shooting of a Jones County man by police was justified because the man would not put down a knife and charged officers. Family says police should have let Jeremy Berg run away.

Two Jones County deputies and three Anamosa police officers are now on paid administrative leave.

The city budget will cover the first $500,000 before insurance kicks in, an amount nearly twice as much as Cedar Rapids will save this year by closing a golf course and 20 times as much as it will spend on a new board to review complaints against officers.