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Iowa Gun Battle: Four Wounded, One Killed, Confusion, Bad Judgement, and Alcohol
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On 30 May 2020, a gunfight ensued at Sunset Village Mobile Home Park in Hiawatha, Iowa. In the end, one person was dead, three others were wounded, and 25 shots had been fired. The gunfight happened at the intersection of Sunset Lane and Wright Drive, a little before high noon.
The trouble started when Selena Straka, who was living in the trailer park with her sister, her brother-in-law, and her boyfriend, Tyler Bell, told her sister she had been walking in the trailer park, alone, when she was attacked by two unknown men. The brother-in-law started looking for the attackers, but no police were called.
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Updated: 9:37 AM CST January 30, 2021
HIAWATHA, Iowa The Linn County Attorney says no one will be charged in the shooting death of a Hiawatha man that also wounded three other people.
Joshua Lathrop died in May at a shootout at a mobile home in Hiawatha.
Friday, County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden decided the people who shot Lathrop were acting in self-defense.
Investigators say two brothers carrying weapons went to the trailer park after hearing a woman had been attacked.
An intoxicated Lathrop confronted the brothers and hit one of them. A gun battle involving up to 25 shots ensued and Lathrop was shot.
A shootout last year at the Sunset Village Mobile Home Park in Hiawatha that left three men injured and a fourth man dead will not lead to major criminal charges.