Police: Child killed in 1 of spate of Waterloo shootings
May 19th, 2018 by Ric Hanson
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Police say a child has been killed in one of four overnight shootings that left three others wounded. The Courier reports that officers were called to a house around 5:15 a.m. Saturday and found a victim, described as a boy, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.
In another shooting around 4:35 a.m., another person was shot, suffering injuries not believed to be life threatening.
Around 1:15 a.m., two people were shot in a separate incident. They, too, suffered injuries not believed to be life threatening.
Police had not identified any of the victims by late Saturday afternoon.