The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there, authorities said Wednesday.
An hourslong manhunt during which residents hunkered down in businesses or received police escorts to their homes ended with a traffic stop and brief chase Monday evening, when authorities detained a man they described as a person of interest. They identified no motive for the attack in Highland Park, an affluent community of about 30,000 on Chicago’s north shore.
On Tuesday, about two blocks away from Saturday’s shooting, officers found a juvenile who was suffering from a gunshot wound in his foot.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating two Tuesday evening shots fired incidents that resulted in non-life threatening injuries to two people, according to news releases from the department.
The shooting was a “targeted incident,” police said, and no arrest had been announced.
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.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday in relation to a shooting that happened Sunday in which about 24 rounds were fired at a Cedar Rapids apartment building.
A man who fatally shot two women before killing himself in the parking lot of an Iowa church had been romantically involved with one of the women and faced a court hearing next week on a charge of harassing her, investigators said Friday.
Johnathan Lee Whitlatch, 33, of Boone, pulled up in a pickup truck next to 22-year-old Eden Montang, 21-year-old Vivian Flores and another woman just before 7 p.m. Thursday outside Cornerstone Church on the outskirts of Ames and began shooting with a 9 mm handgun. Both victims were Iowa State students, authorities say.
A woman was arrested Monday as a getaway driver in a shooting in April near the Cedar Rapids Hy-Vee. Bullets struck the grocery store.
A gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people Wednesday at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, police said, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.
Prosecutors amended a first-degree murder charge to voluntary manslaughter for a Cedar Rapids man who shot another man three times during a fight.
Salvador Ramos, 18, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in the bloodshed Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that ended with police storming a fourth-grade classroom and killing him. He had legally bought two such rifles just days before.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Wednesday called for passage of his Eagles Act, to expand the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center with a greater focus on school violence prevention.
It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the shocking attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman fatally shot 20 children and six adults in December 2012.
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