AMES, IA (IRN) – A man shot and killed two female victims, then killed himself, in a parking lot outside Ames’ Cornerstone Church Thursday night. The shooting happened during Salt Company, a college ministry program at the church. Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald identified the two women killed in the shooting as 22-year-old Eden Moriah Montang, of Boone, and 21-year-old Vivian Renee Flores, of West Des Moines. Fitzgerald identified the shooter as 33-year-old Johnathan Lee Whitlatch. Fitzgerald said Whitlatch fired several rounds from a 9mm handgun, striking Montang and Flores, then turned the gun on himself. A third woman who was with Montang and Flores was able to find safety and was not injured.

DUBUQUE, IA (IRN) – One person died in a fire in Cascade on Wednesday night. Multiple fire departments responded to the fire. The building is a total loss, with an estimated $80,000 in damage. No one was injured.

MADISON COUNTY, IA (IRN) – One person is dead after a van rolled several times off the Interstate 35 roadway in Madison County, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

MAHASKA COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A construction worker from Ottumwa died Wednesday after becoming pinned by equipment while working on a bridge on Highway 92 over the North Skunk River in Mahaska County. By the time law enforcement arrived, workers had already been able to free 46-year-old Pablo Jesus Gomez-Garcia, but he died at the scene.

LANSING, IA (IRN) – A Canadian Pacific train derailed in northeast Iowa on Wednesday, spilling coal into the Mississippi River. Ten coal cars derailed, but only one tipped coal into the river. An unknown amount of coal spilled about 4 miles south of Lansing, just south of the Lansing power plant.