Breaking news with shots fired after a Wild Police Chase on des moines south side. Alyx sacks is at the scene this morning so is the suspect in custody . Alyx they are. They have the custody before 3 00 a. M. Behind me, the crime scene unit is on scene looking for evidence. We are in cassidy now. That is not where this started. Southwest 14th street is one an officer tried to pull over the suspect in a vehicle and the vehicle the suspect refused to pull over and led police on a perceived. That shes got up to 80 Miles Per Hour that chase got up to 80 Miles Per Hour. At that point, officers got out of his vehicle trying to get the suspect in the custody and that is when the suspect and then started to drive toward the officers and that is when the officer fired at the suspect. Suspect, but the suspect continued in the vehicle and was finally arrested at 227 this morning according to Des Moines Police. After attempting to flee on foot. We do know more about the suspect this morning. I tal
It will be here in a couple of hours . Metinka we are tracking it near the western part of the state and up to Guthrie County and through auburn county. All of that is moving this morning. What you see here may not be preaching the ground just yet but it will be reaching the ground later, light snow today. We have clouds in des moines with 16 degrees and a nearly called wind. It will be a gentle snow fall today. It will come down in the early afternoon hours. You can expect up to. 5one inches of snow. Elizabeth we want to get straight to the breaking news. Shots fired after a chase on the south side. Alyx sacks is on the scene right now. If the suspect in custody . The crime scene unit just left. There were officers here in the area about 10 minutes ago, still looking for evidence with the crime scene unit. Here is what happened while we were sleeping. At 2 20 this morning, authorities went to pull over a vehicle and it would not pull over. It led police on a highspeed chase, up to 80
, just those two projects alone could be easily over 100 million. Cynthia ag leaders say a Funding Source is needed now to clean up iowas lakes, rivers and streams in light of the , water works lawsuit to keep record levels of nitrates out of our drinking water. It is so important to every single iowan. If this doesnt get resolved, farmers wont know what to do. Theyre bankers wont know what to lead. What to lendd. There is a tremendous need for immediate action. Cynthia Senate Majority leader Mike Gronstal says the proposal to take money from a school fund for Water Quality is expected to meet some resistence by legislators. Steve just yesterday, we told you that last year the Des Moines Water Works ran its nitrateremoval equipment a the Iowa Department of human rights estimates that iowas prison population will grow 23 in the next 10 years. The Department Says there were nearly 8200 inmates in iowa prisons as of june of last year. By june 2025, they estimate that number to climb to mo
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