A Linn County jury took less than 90 minutes to convict Dimione Walker of first-degree murder in the April 10 fatal shooting of Michael Valentine inside the Taboo club in downtown Cedar Rapids. He reacted by smiling and almost laughing as the verdict was read.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage of Dimione Walker murder trial.
The defense called police officers to the witness stand as it started its case in the Dimione Walker murder trial. Police officers testified that the Cedar Rapids man Walker is accused of killing at the Taboo club was a suspect in a 2016 gun incident in which Walker was injured.
An autopsy showed Tuesday that Michael Valentine was shot five times and died from multiple gunshot injuries. Walker told police he wasn’t at the club that night and denied knowing Valentine.
Dimione Walker denied to police that he was the man in surveillance video of the fatal shooting of Michael Valentine in April inside the Taboo club in Cedar Rapids. He also denied knowing Valentine or shooting him in self-defense.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage of the trial Tuesday.
Walker, 29, of Coralville, is accused of killing Michael Valentine on April 10 inside the Taboo Nightclub & Lounge in Cedar Rapids.
A prosecutor, during her opening statement Monday, said Dimione Walker was watching and staring at Michael Valentine as soon as he arrived at the Taboo night club April 10. Walker then seemed to walk away, but instead, spun around and started firing at Valentine.
Opening statements will be Monday in the murder trial of Dimione Walker, who is accused of fatally shooting a man in April inside the Taboo Nightclub & Lounge in Cedar Rapids.
Jury selection started today for a Coralville man accused of fatally shooting a Cedar Rapids man in April inside the Taboo club. Jury selection may take longer because there may be many familiar with the case or knew people at the club that night.
A judge has denied a motion to dismiss the first degree murder charge against Dimione Walker — one of two men accused in April’s fatal shooting inside the Taboo Nightclub & Lounge in Cedar Rapids.
His defense says Dimione Walker’s right to a speedy trial were violated. A decision on the motion has not yet been made.
A Coralville man charged with shooting a man in a downtown club in April wants to subpoena police records which may indicate he and victim were involved in previous shootings.
A Coralville man was finally returned to Iowa on a governor’s warrant and was charged Saturday with first-degree murder and other charges in the Taboo shooting.
Timothy Rush, accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend at Taboo nightclub on April 10, is now facing an additional murder charge, after a man who was injured in the shooting died on July 24.
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