MASON CITY, IA (IRN) – Investigators say an altercation preceded a railroad officer’s shooting of a man in Mason City. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says Union Pacific special agent Louis Miner stopped 30-year-old Nathan Olson for trespassing on Union Pacific property last Thursday, and an altercation occurred. The DCI hasn’t released whether Olson was armed. He remains hospitalized. Miner was treated at a hospital Thursday and then released.
NEW HAMPTON, IA (IRN) – A Chickasaw County man will spend life in prison for the death of his infant son. WQAD-TV reports Zachary Koehn, 29, left the four-month-old baby in a bedroom for nearly two weeks last year. Authorities found baby Sterling dead in a swing seat, weighing less than 7 pounds, in a diaper that hadn’t been changed in a week, and with maggots forming under his skin. The boy’s mother, Cheyanne Harris, 21, has pled not guilty and will have a separate trial.
FORT COLLINS, CO (IRN) – A Colorado man already in custody for causing a fatal crash that killed a Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School teacher and his daughter is now facing murder charges. KGAN-TV reports 19-year-old Marcos Orozco was fleeing police after a burglary when he crashed into a vehicle carrying 55-year-old John Nees and 38-year-old Nicole Nees. The father was visiting his daughter on Thanksgiving in Fort Collins.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A man who worked for a non-profit organization that helps at-risk youth is charged with enticing a minor under the age of 16 for a sexual purpose. WHO-TV reports Akil Jabbar met with the minor in the middle of the night with the intent of committing an illegal sex act with her. Jabbar allegedly planned to supply the girl with illegal drugs and alcohol.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Gov. Kim Reynolds says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has again rejected a disaster assistance request for victims of tornadoes that hit Marshall and Polk counties last summer. FEMA stated that the damage wasn’t severe or widespread enough to merit individual assistance. Marshalltown was hit especially hard by the July tornado, which damaged more than 900 homes.