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The West Liberty Police Department is asking the public for assistance in an investigation into a woman who was found dead late Thursday. West Liberty City Hall and police department. According to a press release from the department, at about 11:40 p.
m. Thursday, officers with the West Liberty Police Department and West Liberty Fire/EMS personnel were dispatched to an unreleased address to reports of an unresponsive female subject. The subject was later declared deceased with a single gunshot wound listed as the cause of death.
The release said that names and additional details are not being released at this time pending notification of the next of kin. The city of West Liberty has requested that the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation assist with the investigation, which remains ongoing. The release said that this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public.
People with information on the incident are asked to contact the West Liberty Police Department at (319) 627-2223 or email chief Joshua Houser at [email protected] . Georgia school shooting suspect, 14-year-old Colt Gray, has been charged with four counts of murder following the incident at Apalachee High School.
Gray has been identified despite being a minor, following allegations of shooting and killing two students and two teachers on campus. The victims have been named as 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and teachers Christina Irimie, 53, and Richard Aspenwall, 39. Gray who was a student at Apalachee High School, was arrested at the scene of the shooting, after immediately surrendering to school officers.
Barrow County sheriff Jud Smith said it was unclear whether Gray’s victims were targeted specifically, stating, “we may never know” why it happened, or understand Gray's connection to the four victims. The teenager was previously investigated by the FBI after receiving anonymous tips about threats he allegedly made at age 13 regarding a school shooting. In an FBI interview with Gray and his father, he denied that he had made any threats.
Gray’s father had assured the FBI that he had no unsupervised access to guns, and no further action was taken. During the incident, students and faculty flooded to the school's football stadium for shelter. Police have reported that the initiative of Apalachee teachers during the shooting saved dozens of lives.
Students are evacuated to the football stadium after the school campus was placed on lockdown at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.
(WSB via AP) Police vehicles are seen outside Apalachee High School after a shooting there caused an unknown number of injuries and a suspect was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Ninth grader Jacob Fokuo describes the shooting at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. A shooting at the Georgia high school Wednesday caused an unknown number of injuries and a suspect was arrested in a chaotic scene. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) A medical helicopter is seen in front of Apalachee High School after a shooting at the school Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) People leave Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga.
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Students and parents walk off campus at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Dan Williamson prays during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mourners pray during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga.
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mourners hold candles during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mourners pray during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mourners pray during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga.
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mark Gorman holds a candle during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Parents walk their child out of Apalachee High School after a shooting at the school Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Students and parents walk off campus at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga.
A shooting at the Georgia high school Wednesday caused an unknown number of injuries and a suspect was arrested in a chaotic scene. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Brandy Rickaba and her daughter Emilie pray during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga.
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mourners pray during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Mourners listen to a speaker during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept.
4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Get the latest in local public safety news with this weekly email. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.
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