mcneeley. mcneeley was stabbed to death in her home in the 1400 block of pioneer road at 4:30 a.m. on january 24th. today, police say blood found at the scene matches yahia s d-n-a. yahia was shot and killed by urbandale police officers earlier this month. after they were called to the merle hay holiday inn on a drug complaint. after entering the lobby, officers confronted three people and a scuffle began with yahia who opened fire. officers returned fire and yahia was hit and died at the scene. des moines police say yahia had a lengthy criminal history and was particularly dangerous. 9:04:59 you know when we think about the reason we get into the business and putting bad guys in prison. this is the guy were thinking about. this guy was a known violent offender. no empathy for anyone else i believe he had no conscience and his actions very clearly demonstrate that he was very violent. officials believe yahia is also cases based on evidence. jury selection is currently under
may provide a motive. his arrest record includes assaults, break-ins and robberies..the kind of person law enforcement wants off the streets. police 09:04:59 when we get into the business and think about putting away bad guys. this is the guy that we re thinking about. this guy was a known violent offender. police say yahia acted alone.. when he broke into mcneeley s home and stabbed her death. so his death all but closes the murder investigation. neigbhor 02:02:15 it would sure ease my mind if he was the guilty party the night of the murder, yahia showed up at the hospital with a serious cut on his hand. he told officers that he was the victim home invasion and even went as far as staging a fake crime scene. police say if he hadn t been shot and killed.it would have only been a matter of time until they arrested him for mcneeley s death. here s a look at a portion of yahia s criminal history. in 20-14, he was charged with eight robberies. many of them grocery stores in des m
here to dci s crime lab- where we got an inside look. the blood was entered into their combined dna indexing system. a place where all felons and crime scene dna has been stored for more than 10 years if youre convicted of specific crimes, have to give dna sample for our data base, we re around 10,000 samples per year from people we re databasing but on february 13th, before the dna results were in and in a dangerous turn of events, yahia was shot and killed in an altercation with urbandale police in the middle of this holiday inn hotel lobby. five days later, results came back, linking yahia to mcneeley s murder, but it was too late. think about the reason we get into the business, this is what we re atlking about. claire police say they strongly believe yahia is the sole there was no tie mcneeley and they added we may never know suspect he house to rob but because of the circumstances, this case will considered closed. are iowa stephanie: now we did reach out to urbandale
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