A Hiawatha man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for charges stemming from him shooting at his ex-girlfriend’s SUV, in which their 5-year-old son was a passenger. The woman says the multiple bullets “narrowly missed us both.”
Antonio Juarez-Luna, 15, is accused of shooting a 17-year-old he was playing basketball with at Hanna Park on Aug. 5.
A Cedar Rapids man, who has a lengthy gun violence history that started as a teen, will remain in jail pending federal gun charges.
A Cedar Rapids man was extradited from Indiana and charged with fatally shooting a man outside Poppa n Tommyz on June 11. Witnesses said the shooter fired multiple times, at close range, as he walked by the victim.
The murder trial for Duval Walker, accused of starting a fight with and punching another man before shooting him in a Marion bar, will not start this week as originally scheduled. A motion to continue the trial was granted in a hearing Monday.
A Cedar Rapids teen, who pleaded guilty in February to charges related to a shooting in November that injured a Mount Mercy cross-country runner, was arrested this week on weapons charges.
In one shots-fired incident, a victim sleeping inside was struck by a bullet
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 25 years Monday for shooting a gun into a large crowd celebrating a birthday at a hotel in 2021. Two of his charges were enhanced because of previous convictions.
One person was injured Saturday in what appeared to be a targeted shooting at Hannah Park in Marion.
A Cedar Rapids man who shot out multiple windows of a house and then fired shots at two police officers when they responded was convicted this week and faces up to 18 years. The prosecution is asking the court to find he is a habitual offender, which means he could face 15 years on each of the three felony convictions.
This interactive map shows the locations of known gun crimes and shots-fired incidents in Cedar Rapids, Marion and other areas within Linn County for the month of June 2023. Details about each incident can be viewed in a popup window.
A Coralville man has been charged with attempted murder in relation to a shooting in Iowa City on July 4, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.
Lamont’e O’Neal, 20, is in custody in Cook County, Ill., on unrelated charges and will be extradited later to face charges in Johnson County, police said.
This interactive map shows the locations of known shots-fired incidents and additional gun crimes in Cedar Rapids, Marion and other areas within Linn County for the month of May 2023. Details about each incident can be viewed in a popup window.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted of a 2022 vehicular homicide that resulted in the death of a 77-year-old Cedar Rapids woman and seriously injuring a 73-year-old Marion woman. He also pleaded in a shooting case and faces up to 25 years for both cases.
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