AN OVERNIGHT FIGHT IN DOWNTOWN IOWA CITY TURNED INTO A SHOOTING INCIDENT WHICH INJURED TWO PEOPLE SHORTLY AFTER 1 A.M. ON SUNDAY. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM THE SCENE SHOWS ONE PERSON ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE FIGHT PULLING A WEAPON WITH A LASER SITE AND FIRING SEVERAL ROUNDS. THE CROWD SCATTERED, BUT NOT BEFORE A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY AND 24-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WERE HURT. AUTHORITIES SAID NEITHER INJURY WAS LIFE THREATENING.
WATERLOO MAYOR QUENTIN HART DISCUSSED POLICING DURING A RECENT APPEARANCE ON KXEL. SOME CURRENT AND FORMER WATERLOO OFFICERS HAVE EXPRESSED FRUSTRATION AFTER THE CONTROVERSIAL CHANGE OF THE DEPARTMENT’S GRIFFIN LOGO. ANOTHER SOURCE OF CONSTERNATION FOR SOME RELATED TO THE WATERLOO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THE PERCEIVED DESIRE OF CHIEF JOEL FITZGERALD TO FIND A NEW JOB IN ANOTHER COMMUNITY. HEAR MORE FROM HART ON THAT TOPIC NEXT HOUR.
RELATIVES OF MISSING 11-YEAR-OLD MONTEZUMA BOY XAVIOR HARRELSON WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE AMBER ALERT SYSTEM EXPANDED. OUR COVERAGE PARTNERS AT CBS2 TALKED WITH HARRELSON’S AUNT, MICHELLE HARRELSON, DURING A SUNDAY VIGIL [AUDIO :11]. CRITERIA FOR AN AMBER ALERT INCLUDE THE BELIEF BY LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT AN ABDUCTION OCCURRED AND THAT THE CHILD IS IN IMMINENT DANGER. HARRELSON DISAPPEARED IN MAY.
AFTER TWO HOURS LATE SUNDAY AND INTO EARLY THIS MORNING, A WATERLOO MAN WAS ARRESTED AS POLICE CORNERED HIM IN A WEST SIDE HOUSE. A DOMESTIC DISPUTE WHICH REPORTEDLY INCLUDED A GUNSHOT TRIGGERED THE LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE. THE SCENE ON WEST MULLAN NEAR SOUTH STREET DREW POLICE FROM ACROSS THE CITY TO FORM A PERIMETER AND NEGOTIATE WITH THE SUSPECT. AN ARREST WAS MADE AROUND 12:30, WITH CHARGES PENDING.
WATERLOO POLICE CHIEF JOEL FITZGERALD WORKED IN SEVERAL LARGER COMMUNITIES BEFORE COMING TO THE CEDAR VALLEY LAST SUMMER. SINCE THEN, FITZGERALD HAS DRAWN CRITICISM FOR HIS APPARENT INTEREST IN POLICE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS ELSEWHERE. WATERLOO MAYOR QUENTIN HART TALKED ABOUT THAT RECENTLY ON KXEL. HART’S OPPONENT IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION IS CITY COUNCILWOMAN MARGARET KLEIN, WHO HAS CALLED ON POLICE CHIEF FITZGERALD TO RESIGN. FITZGERALD HAS REPORTEDLY BEEN UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR JOBS IN AT LEAST FOUR OTHER STATES.
TWO COMPANIES ARE SEEKING TO BUILD THOUSANDS OF MILES OF PIPELINE ACROSS THE MIDWEST, PROMISING THE EFFORT WILL HELP THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE. THE PIPES WOULD STRETCH FROM NORTH DAKOTA TO ILLINOIS FOR CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE. CARBON DIOXIDE FROM ETHANOL REFINERIES WOULD BE SENT TO SITES WHERE IT COULD BE BURIED DEEP UNDERGROUND. SOME CONSERVATIONISTS OPPOSE THE PLAN, POTENTIALLY OPENING A NEW CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ENERGY COMPANIES AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
UNIFORM PATCHES AND THE IMAGES ON WATERLOO POLICE VEHICLES HAVE CHANGED IN 2021. THE DISPUTE ABOUT THE NATURE AND HISTORY OF WATERLOO’S POLICE LOGO HAS LINGERED EVEN AFTER THE RED GRIFFIN HAS DISAPPEARED. ON KXEL RECENTLY, MAYOR QUENTIN HART SAID THE VOLUME OF THE ARGUMENT DOES NOT ACCURATELY REPRESENT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED, NOR COMMUNITY SENTIMENT ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT. DURING NEXT HOUR’S KXEL NEWSCAST, HEAR HART’S RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ABOUT CURRENT POLICE DEPARTMENT MORALE.
IT WAS A DANGEROUS WEEKEND ON IOWA ROADS. SERIOUS ACCIDENTS INCLUDED A FATAL CRASH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 151 SOUTH OF DUBUQUE. THE STATE PATROL SAYS NICHOLAS SILICH OF EPWORTH WAS KILLED WHEN HIS VEHICLE COLLIDED WITH A SEMI CROSSING THE ROAD AT A RURAL INTERSECTION. AROUND THE SAME TIME IN EASTERN BLACK HAWK COUNTY, TWO WOMEN WERE SENT TO THE HOSPITAL WHEN ONE VEHICLE WAS STRUCK FROM BEHIND BY ANOTHER WHILE TURNING OFF OF DUBUQUE ROAD. DESPITE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE, THE INJURIES WERE CHARACTERIZED AS MINOR. AND SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR RAPIDS LAST NIGHT, TWO PEOPLE ESCAPED THE WORST POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES WHEN A MOTORCYCLE WENT ON ITS SIDE. LINN COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY INJURIES WERE NOT LIFE THREATENING; NEITHER RIDER WAS WEARING A HELMET.
RAGBRAI RIDERS ARE ROLLING THROUGH NORTHWEST IOWA RIGHT NOW. THE TOUR BEGAN ON SUNDAY. TODAY, CYCLISTS ARE MEANDERING 67 MILES FROM SAC CITY TO FORT DODGE.
