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Ames Tribune
Judge Angela Doyle of Ames prepped a jury spread across a Story County courtroom wearing face shields imagery of a vastly different time than that of Xavier Jordan Shepley’s murder in 2017.
Due to COVID-19, Shepley’s mother, Jenny, had to wait outside the courtroom during Friday’s proceedings, hoping there will be justice for her son.
This jury, which heard closing arguments Friday morning, must decide if Jordan Nicole Bryant, 27, “made all contact” orchestrating the fatal robbery, as the prosecution argues, or if she was at Shepley’s apartment only to solicit prostitution at the time of the crime.
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One of the men who had been charged in a June 2020 double-homicide in Fort Dodge saw his murder charges dismissed on Monday.
Darrell L. Jones, 23, of Fort Dodge, was facing two counts of second-degree murder (a Class B felony) and one count of felon in possession of a firearm (a Class D felony) after a deadly shooting in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood on June 16, 2020.
Two Fort Dodge men, 25-year-old Jamael Cox and 47-year-old Tyrone Cunningham, were killed in a volley of bullets in the early morning hours of June 16. Two others were injured but survived: Marissa Andrews of Fort Dodge, 21, and Jayne Barton of Wesley, 30.
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One Fort Dodge defendant charged in the June 16 double homicide in Pleasant Valley is entitled to $5,560 for being held as a material witness nearly five months, a judge ruled Tuesday.
District Court Judge Angela Doyle ruled in favor of Darrell Jones, 23, after he filed a motion arguing for the payment. Jones is one of five defendants charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the killing of Jamael Cox, 25, and Tyrone Cunningham, 47.
They were shot to death in the early morning hours of June 16, 2020. Marissa Andrews, of Fort Dodge, and Jayne Bartrom, of Wesley, were injured in the gunfire along 10th Avenue Southwest.
-Messenger photo by Elijah Decious
Magistrate Judge Sarah Livingston, a former assistant county attorney for Webster County, took the bench Dec. 7 as former Judge Bill Thatcherâs replacement in Webster County. She will maintain her private practice as a partner at Thatcher and Livingston PLC in Fort Dodge as a family law mediation attorney, moving away from criminal defense work to avoid conflicts of interest.
-Messenger photo by Elijah Decious
Magistrate Judge Sarah Livingston, a former assistant county attorney for Webster County, took the bench Dec. 7 as former Judge Bill Thatcherâs replacement in Webster County. She will maintain her private practice as a partner at Thatcher and Livingston PLC in Fort Dodge as a family law mediation attorney, moving away from criminal defense work to avoid conflicts of interest.