CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – New court filings show a man charged with attempted murder after an overnight stabbing in Cedar Rapids earlier this week is accused of attacking a man his ex-girlfriend was with. Michael Chevalier, 33, is in the Linn County jail on a quarter million dollar bond. Those filings show the man that was attacked says Chevalier came at him with a ten-inch buck knife just after midnight Thursday, while he and Chevalier’s ex were on the Cemar bike trail. The man was stabbed in the back.
JOHNSON COUNTY, IA (IRN) – A crash involving 15 vehicles on I-80 near Iowa City resulted in the deaths of two people early Sunday morning. Nine semis and six passenger vehicles were involved in the accident. Several drivers lost control of their vehicles and crashed into each other.
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – A man found shot behind the wheel of a car in southwest Cedar Rapids is dead, and investigators are hoping to talk to any witnesses that saw what happened Sunday night.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Two people were arrested Thursday night for allegedly trying to steal a child in downtown Des Moines. Laurie Lynn Potter, 56, and Michael Ernest Ross, 43, were arrested and charged with Child Stealing, a Class C Felony. The victim and their mother were at her office building downtown. The mother noticed two people, later identified as Potter and Ross, hanging around the office entrance and went to ask if they needed anything. After she opened the door, Potter and Ross grabbed her child by the arm and tried to run out of the Skywalk. The mother was able to fight them off and scare them away.
DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Des Moines Fire Department extricated a driver from a car after a single-vehicle crash on Sunday. The department said that slick roads caused a car to slide and crash into a gas pump around 7 a.m. The pump didn’t explode. The driver was taken to the hospital.
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