that gets hurt or killed is not the one handling the firearm they are watching someone else that s playing with the gun and they re curious and the gun goes off and it s the other person in the room.. six of the 14 recorded shootings happened when a minor accidentally shot another minor. and nearly all of these incidents were inside someone s home. and a reminder, in iowa it is illegal for someone under the age of 21 to possess a handgun. it s also illegal for tonight at 10 hear why authorities say there s an increasing use of gun handling among minors. live in cedar rapids, jordee kalk, kcrg tv9 news. eastern iowa has seen several accidental shootings in the last month. a shooting on the southeast side of cedar rapids killed ireshia parks. she was just 13. a 13 year old boy was handling a gun when it went off. a bullet hit parks. manslaughter charge for her death. two other teenagers are also charged in the shooting. a bullet also killed this 15 year old- senquez jackson -
14 accidental shootings of minors. seven were fatal. another seven resulted in injuries. t-v nine s jordee kalk spoke with the linn county sheriff s office who say it s never too early to introduce kids to gun safety. 45:58, i think it s very important even at an early age to just begin talking about it they might be too young to handle a fire arm but they need to know what to do if someone else is. authorities s they see a gun it can be a danger. if a child sees a gun, he or she should know to tell an adult immediately. 46:09, many times the person that gets hurt or killed is not the one handling the firearm. rarely the minor accidentally shot him or herself. 8 out of the 14 shootings it was minors shooting minors. this was the case for 13- year-old ireshia parks. she was shot and killed by another 13-year-old in cedar rapids just last month. nat a similar situation also killed 15-year-old senquez jackson in march. police say another teen fired what he thought was an unl
plan on a warm and windy day! clouds this morning , will be quick to lift north as warm and breezy conditions take over. there is no precipitation anticipated with either the warm front today or cold front tonight. highs will be within a few degrees of record in some spots, and we ll be monitoring the potential of breaking these. records are as follows: cedar rapids, 86, 1950. dubuque, 86, 1950. waterloo, 86, 1910. iowa city, 88, 1950. plan on dry conditions tomorrow and wednesday with only a small rain chance still on track for thursday morning.today : partly sunny, windy, mostly clear. wind: w 10-20 low: 59 tomorrow: mostly sunny. wind: nw 5-15. high: 70 tom. night: mostly clear. wind: nw 5-10. low: 48 thanks kaj. two people are dead in a small on a report on gunfire. investigators say no one is in custody and that the public is not at risk last night, law enforcement responded to a mobile home park on dogwood road in freeport, that s just east of decorah. that s where we f
bruce, back to you. candidates in iowa s third congressional district are also debating tonight. incumbent republican david young will face democrat jim mowrer. that district is in southwest iowa, and includes des moines, red oak and council bluffs. the debate starts at eight o clock on iowa public television. this year s election is featuring a pretty non- people are coming up with interesting ways of showing their distaste for some of the candidates. one dubuque woman was so disgusted as she drove past a trump billboard every day, she raised funds to counter the billboard. kcrg t-v nine s katie wiedemann joins us now. katie, the sign company she used says this is something they have never seen before? exactly, aaron vosmek from cr signs who owns them. never before has an an individual person, who is not attached to a campaign, bought a political ad like this. kate parks is a mom and teacher who says she s tired of driving past this trump billboard. it s been on display alon
in rural linn county. in them you can see some funnel clouds from that same storm system. so let s bring in meteorologist chris havely with your first alert forecast. , we took a lot of calls about the tornado sirens going off. but it seems like it was a pretty small twister? any shower or storms in the area will quickly dissipate once the sun sets, and temperatures similar to saturday night s where we will have some people in elkader are exhausted weekend cleaning up flood debris. and the work isn t done yet. the turkey river crested at 22 and a half feet on friday. that s about five feet lower than the national weather service predicted. people stacked sandbags along the river to protect the town. who wouldn t after seeing the river like this. kcrg friday. water gushed past businesses that have been closed since thursday. t-v nine s jordee kalk shows us the city s progress. 14:03, and it was over the railing here, and you couldn t come down here, the waves were just splash