Articles Tagged: shooting

A Cedar Rapids man has been arrested and accused in the July 2021 shooting death of 15-year-old Tyliyah L. Whitis in Cedar Rapids.

Six people were injured at a shooting that broke out at a birthday party in October. Police have suspects, but have yet to press any charges.

A mother said she is “absolutely relieved” the parole board rescinded it’s decision to give early release to the man who fatally shot her son on the Ped Mall in Iowa City in 2017, but it’s “tiring to be a victim of crime because you are always having to fight.” She dreads the next parole hearing.

Rachel Rockwell’s departure from the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation to continue work on Group Violence Intervention with a Central City nonprofit raises questions over the program’s long-term strategy

Police are investigating a second fatal shooting in less than 24 hours in southeast Cedar Rapids, and court records show the two men who died had been involved in a fight in 2020.

Officers found 19-year-old Cordal R. Lewis lying dead in the street with one or more gunshot wounds, in the 300 block of 31st Street Drive SE on Thursday afternoon.

According to the complaint, Green shot at Jackson in the 800 block of Sixth Street SW “with the intent to cause the death of another person.”

A Wisconsin man accused of killing his girlfriend and trying to kill his teenage daughter in a double shooting in Milwaukee has been arrested after an hourslong standoff in northeastern Iowa.

A former Cedar Rapids man faces attempted murder charges after a June 25 shooting that injured another man. An argument over a woman led to the incident, police said.

A Cedar Rapids man convicted for unintentionally shooting an 18-year-old woman in 2020, now faces another 10 years for federal gun crime.

DeMarcus D. Robertson Ray, 18, of Cedar Rapids was arrested by Iowa City police on Dec. 22 after he was released from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

IOWA FALLS (AP) — A man stopped by police Wednesday morning for reportedly stalking a woman he used to date was fatally shot by officers when he displayed a gun and tried to flee the stop, according to police.

According to a news release, at 1:25 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a report of shots fired at the ramp at 220 S. Capitol St. Officers found evidence that multiple shots were fired and several people may have been involved.

Ernest Gaston in a jury trial in May 2022 was found guilty of assault with intent to cause serious injury, …

A 20-year-old Cedar Rapids man was linked to a shooting after investigators found shell casings and a scooter at the scene. His co-defendant hasn’t been arrested yet.