A teenage girl who took advanced classes and played on her high school basketball team — and dreamed of someday running her own business — was found dead this week with a bullet wound in a crashed car she had borrowed while visiting her older sister in Cedar Rapids, according to interviews and authorities.
Officers were called just before 6:30 a.m. to the Hawthorne Hills apartment complex — in the 2200 block of C Street SW — for reports of a single-vehicle wreck.
Police said it was determined that Johnnie L. Stevenson, 36, pulled out a semi-automatic handgun that he had concealed on his person and fired one shot at close range at the individual’s head.
Vehicles and buildings were damaged, but no injuries were reported
Diana Depolis has been charged with reckless use of a firearm causing bodily injury and carrying a dangerous weapon while intoxicated
Police are investigating two shots fired incidents that occurred Thursday evening in southeast Cedar Rapids.
That tool is the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (or NIBIN for short) – a federal system that allows investigators to capture ballistic evidence and compare it with a national database of spent shell casings that have been collected from crime scenes across the country.
A 31-year-old Cedar Rapids man faces charges aafter a Wednesday night fight a in the parking lot at Leo’s Liquors, 1500 First Ave. NE.
Police are investigating after shots were fired at a vehicle Wednesday night in southwest Cedar Rapids. Witnesses told police that a subject in one vehicle fired gunshots at people in another vehicle.
The documentary features family and friends of people who died by gun violence, police officers, educators and community members.
Number of shootings in Cedar Rapids reported in the first half of 2021 is down roughly 22 percent compared with the same time period the year before.
At 9:16 p.m., police received information that someone had been shot in the area of 501 Sixth St. SW, which is a Casey’s General Store.
Iowa City police said the woman was hit by gunfire while she was sitting in her car Monday night.
A woman was shot in the leg early Saturday at an apartment complex in southeast Marion, police said.
Cedar Rapids police are investigating after a man was shot in the leg at an apartment complex in northwest Cedar Rapids.
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