We begin today with a Major New Development in the investigation into the death of an iowa man on the lake of the ozarks last year. A Missouri State trooper is now manslaughter in the drowning of Brandon Ellingson. This is the last photo of ellingson alive. In may of 2014. He was arrested for alleged drunken boating. Witnesses say Missouri State trooper Anthony Piercy put the wrong life jacket on ellingson while he was handcuffed in the police boat. Ellingson fell out of the boat and drowned. Trooper piercy said he was never told how to use the life vests and a jury ruled the death accidental. The investigation was also plagued with conspiracy of a cover up by the state patrol. That prompted the original special investigator to step down. Today prosecutors said they are charging piercy because theres enough evidence to prove he put ellingsons life in danger that day. I have charged him with wrecklessly causing death. It relates to unjustifiable risk being taken. Ellingsons family has n
Inside. He attempted to overdose. It took an hour for police to southeast 6th street. Farnum was first transported to the hospital and is now at the polk county jail. He is charged with violating a no contact order and interference with official acts. Today family and friends will gather at a church to remember an iowa state student who was killed crossing lincoln way in ames on monday. Visitation for 18 year old emmalee jacobs is today at the Center Point United Methodist church from 4 to 8 pm. Funeral services for the teenager will be held at the Center Point Urbana high school at 1030 tomorrow morning. And the investigation into emmalees death is about to get much harder for police. Potential witnesses. And possibly even the suspect are about to leave town. Channel 13s Justin Surrency has the story. As iowa state students count down to the end of finals time is running out on the investigation as to who hit and killed emmalee jacobs. There could be a potential witness that saw somet
Brad wx wall weather adlib well, our Holiday Weekend is starting of mild and dry early this evening, but that will be changing pretty quickly. Temperatures will be in the 50s most of this evening for central iowa, as rain showers begin to increase over iowa. A cold front will be pushing in from the west and causing temps to drop into early thursday stephanie 2shot good evening. Im stephanie and im jack tonight a car wedged Martin Luther king junior overpass. Traffic on i235 was at a near stop for more than half a mile. Jack jacob peklo was at the scene and with more. Jacob. Jacob driving down the interstate your eyes on the you, you might crash. Signs warned drivers that traffic was shut down more than a mile away from the actual site. And its still that a car could go where this one did. Jacob around 545 tonight, neighbors tell me they heard a loud bang, near the Martin Luther king overpass. Fire crews rushed to the scene. Officials say they had to cut open the car to rescue the three
In the upper teens on near 20 on friday. We should warm back into the 30s by the end of the weekend and into early next week with another snow possible around next tuesday. Sam weather adlib sam tags on cam alright sam and lets get into the top five stories this morning. Elias and the weather is our top story. Bad roads, slipping and sliding and digging out. Road conditions were not great after a halffoot of snow falls. Well check back in with sam in a bit for more details. Elias number two is. Were not great after a halffoot of snow falls. Well check back in with sam in a bit for more details. Elias number two is. What public works crews are doing about it. The city of des moines has 700 miles of residential streets to plow. Once snow routes were done, they were moving onto residential streets which is still happening now. Elias the third thing walk out the know before you walk out the door. There could be a rush at the des moines airport today. Many flights out of the Des Moines Inte
Piercy was originally cleared of any wrong doing. That changed when a Second Special prosecutor was assigned to the case. The charges were announced today. Ive filed the charge of Involuntary Manslaughter against Anthony Piercy today 20 28 5920 29 08 Anthony Piercy deserves what hes getting and hell have his day in court but he knows what he did wrong. 20 30 5220 31 05 i think we are getting somewhere now so hopefully i think brendans smiling down on us and appreciates what we are doing and we are not going to quit until we get justice. Craig ellingson tells us hes relieved at finally getting at shot at justice for his son after two years of fighting. Trooper piercy was put on unpaid leave after the charges were announced. Prosecutors say the case was reopened because of new evidence. But they havent said what that evidence involves. The original special from witnesses. Responding officers. And that recording of trooper piercy we showed. With in days of reviewing the evidence. She deci