Lukas Voss with KGAN was doing a Facebook Live session with a message that read, "Potential crime scene in Iowa City." How could I resist?
The problem with his report is that it really told us nothing. Voss told us that there was an active police presence near the Hy-Vee on Waterfront Drive -- a while before he began reporting. All he could tell us was that there had once been an active police investigation in the area earlier in the morning and that the area had been blocked off to traffic. He couldn't get a statement from the Iowa City Police Department or the Iowa State Patrol.
Which prompted me to write, "Something happened."
Which prompted Voss to respond with, "Yeah Jon, exactly! Something happened. We just don't know what happened."
Which cracked me up and made me an instant fan of Lukas Voss!
An hour or so later, the Iowa City Police Department issued a press release about a police-related shooting incident:
On Thursday, May 9, 2019, at approximately 2:27 AM, officers with the Iowa City Police Department responded to a burglary alarm at a business located at 538 Olympic Court. During the course of the incident, two Iowa City Police officers discharged their firearms. One person was struck and is currently hospitalized. No officers were injured. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the incident. No further information will be released until the involved officers have been interviewed.KCJJ reports that the owner of Big Ten Rentals wrote on Facebook that the "suspect had jumped over a barbed-wire fence and crashed one of his trucks into another."
I will share more as I learn more.