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A 13-year-old girl was found dead in Eldora Sunday after police responded to a report that a person had been shot, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety.

At least one person was killed Wednesday in a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, police say.

The legislation also would require Iowa’s 11 largest school districts — among them Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Council Bluffs, Iowa City, and Sioux City — to have at least one private security guard or school resource officer in each district high school.

A 17-year-old was sentenced to 17 years in prison for shooting and injuring another man, who didn’t know him, in 2022. Police identified the teen through witnesses and surveillance video.

Two people are facing drug charges after they were found in a vehicle with a man who had a gunshot wound Thursday, according to Cedar Rapids police.

The Iowa Board of Parole on Tuesday granted work release to a man who fatally shot one man and seriously injured two others in August 2017 on Iowa City’s Ped Mall.

The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.”

A woman was injured Saturday night after a shooting that the Marion Police Department says stemmed from a family dispute.

In a Facebook post, Marburger’s daughter said he was in “surgery all day, and is currently stable.”

A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school on the first day of school after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others Thursday as students barricaded in offices, ducked into classrooms and fled in panic.

A Cedar Rapids man who was killed by police Monday after leading officers on a car chase has been identified as 20-year-old Michael Griffin by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

The passenger that got out of a vehicle that led Cedar Rapids Police on a chase ending in a shootout Monday morning was a juvenile, according to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Delaware County Attorney says deputy’s actions “reasonable under the circumstances of the moment, to not only protect his own life, but also the lives of nearby citizens.”

The family of a 16-year-old who was killed by Des Moines police in December 2022 has filed a lawsuit arguing that the teen never pointed a gun at officers and police should have had better training in de-escalation.

A Coralville man, originally charged with attempted murder, pleads to lesser charges in July 4 shooting in Iowa City. He faces 25 years in prison.