Marshalltown, IA- Men in Marshalltown and Des Moines were shot to death this weekend and suspects are in custody.
Radio Iowa reports that on Saturday morning, police found a man who’d been shot, lying in a Marshalltown street. The shooting victim, 23-year-old Ezra Oliver Seymore of Tama, was taken to a hospital in Des Moines, where he died. Early Sunday morning, police arrested a 25-year-old Marshalltown man on a first-degree murder charge and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
A 26-year-old Marshalltown woman was also arrested for being an accessory after the fact, which state law describes as a charge leveled when someone assists a person being sought by police. On Sunday, Des Moines Police arrested a 19-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia is the shooting death of a 21-year-old man.
According to a news release from Des Moines Police, the Georgia man was a guest in a Des Moines home, got into a fight early Sunday afternoon and the man who was killed had stepped in to try to break up the fight.
