Trish Mehaffey

Cedar Rapids man, previously convicted for sexual assault in 2021, was sentenced to another 10 years for a 2017 sex assault in Iowa City. He faces two more sex assault trials in June and July.

A Linn County jury convicted Shane Teslik of fatally stabbing Devonna Walker. He faces 10 years in prison. He will be sentenced June 7.

Shane Teslik, under cross exam, said he didn’t think it was important to tell police he called Devonna Walker a racial slur before she attacked and assaulted him. He also said he thought calling Walker, a Black woman, the slur would “neutralize” the heated argument between his girlfriend and Walker.

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Shane Teslik testified Tuesday he grabbed knife and had it ready inside his apartment doorway as an argument escalated with Devonna Walker on Jan. 2, 2023. He admitted to stabbing her once after she punched him. He didn’t know where the knife struck her or the extent of injury. He just wanted to protect his family.

A woman who considered Devonna Walker her “goddaughter” said it “tore me apart” when she went outside and saw Walker lying on the ground, bleeding, and then saw her “eyes rolled back in her head.”

A former Clear Creek Amana middle school track assistant coach was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for child porn. He also posed as a teen and encouraged a 15-year-old victim to produce sexually explicit photos for him to share with others online.

A state medical examiner testified Friday that the stab wound to Devonna Walker, 29, penetrated her aorta, which caused her to bleed to death. He said the stab wound was one of the “deeper” ones he has seen.

A jury ordered the city of Manchester to pay $4.25 million to parents in wrongful death of their son, whose motorcycle was struck by a police officer during a high speed chase.

Shane Teslik’s girlfriend testified Thursday he threatened to kill Devonna Walker and called her a racial slur before she assaulted him and then he stabbed her in January 2023.

Testimony for Shane Teslik, charged with voluntary manslaughter and disorderly conduct in the fatal stabbing of Devonna Walker, started Wednesday in Linn County.

Jes Lang, community violence prevention coordinator for Johnson County program aimed at reducing gun violence, says job is ‘made for her.’ She feels her ‘passion and purpose collided’ when she found this job.

A Cedar Rapids man faces up to 25 years for trying to kill his ex-girlfriend last year. He was convicted of attempted murder and other charges.

The chief state medical examiner on Friday testified the single bullet that killed 17-year-old Cristian Upah during a marijuana robbery last May did extensive damage to his diaphragm muscle, intestines and lower right back muscle. The gunshot caused “significant” blood loss and collapsed his left lung.

Witnesses, who lived in duplex where Cristian Upah was fatally shot outside in the yardlast year, said they heard a gunshot and female screaming and then saw Keyun McGowan running from the scene.