Testimony started Thursday in a 2007 cold case of a Cedar Rapids man severely beaten and stabbed to death at his Hawthorne Hills apartment. His former neighbor is on trial for the crime.
Kazius Childress fired 11 times as 19-year-old Cordal Lewis tried to run away from him, a a prosecutor said during her opening Wednesday. Childress is on trial this week for first-degree murder and going armed with intent. Childress and others robbed Lewis and then Childress shot him in “cold blood.”