Driver now charged with vehicular homicide for death of Mason City woman
Christopher Rathfon
Posted By: Mike Bunge
MASON CITY, Iowa – A Nebraska man is now charged with homicide by vehicle after a woman was struck and killed at Mills Fleet Farm in Mason City.
Police say Christopher Rathfon, 35 of Omaha, NE, was driving the pickup truck that hit Dawn Merrick, 62 of Mason City, on June 8 as she was leaving the store. Merrick was taken to MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center, where she died on June 10.
Rathfon was initially charged with OWI but that has been dismissed to make way for his vehicular homicide prosecution.
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Latimer duo plead guilty to forging dead woman s check
Tyler Mejia (left) and Lauren Johnson. Cerro Gordo County Jail.
Tried to use the check in 2020 after the woman died in 2016.
Posted: May 5, 2021 1:29 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
MASON CITY, Iowa – Two people from Latimer have now pleaded guilty to using a dead woman’s checkbook.
Tyler Mejia, 27, and Lauren Johnson, 30, were arrested in early November 2020 after trying to pay at Mills Fleet Farm in Mason City with a check belonging to a woman who died in 2016. Authorities say Mejia claimed the check was his aunt’s and he had permission to use it. Court documents state the check was from an account that was closed in 2017.