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Sioux City man charged with shooting two people to death this weekend

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October 31st, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa)  – A Sioux City man is in custody, facing murder charges after a shooting early Saturday morning on the west side of Sioux City. Nineteen-year-old Joseph Cruz is charged with two counts of second degree murder, intimidating with a dangerous weapon causing serious injury and willful injury causing serious injury.

Sioux City Police were dispatched to a home around 2:15 a.m. Saturday. They found two shooting victims. one was dead at the scene. The other was pronounced dead at a local hospital. Cruz was later arrested and booked into the Woodbury County Jail where he’s being held pending a bond hearing.