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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.

According to the sheriff’s office, Deputy William Halverson, 38, is a seven-year veteran with the sheriff’s office

A Linn County sheriff’s deputy responding to an alarm late Sunday night at a Coggon convenience store was shot several times and seriously wounded by an intruder who fled, authorities said.

Mason Chance Edwards, 23, confronted the victim on June 9 at a residence in the Western Hills Mobile Estates in Coralville over a previous incident, police said.

Alexander Ken Jackson, 20, has been arrested and faces three counts of first-degree murder, a public safety spokesman said. The spokesman identified the three murder victims as Jan Perry Jackson, 61; Melissa Ferne Jackson, 68; and Sabrina Hana Jackson, 19.

Montel Reed was taken to the Linn County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, going armed with intent, intimidation with a weapon, willful injury causing bodily injury and felon in possession of a firearm.