DES MOINES, Iowa (KELO.com) –The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation releases more information on the Maquoketa Caves State Park incident:
At about 6:23 a.m. this morning, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and DCI were notified of a triple homicide at the Maquoketa Caves State Park campground. Officers located three deceased bodies. Officers later found that a camper was unaccounted for. Following a search of the area, officers found the deceased body of Anthony Orlando Sherwin, 23, west of the park.
Gov. Kim Reynolds also released the following statement Friday in response to the shootings in eastern Iowa:
“I’m horrified by the shooting this morning at Maquoketa Caves State Park and devastated by the loss of three innocent lives. As we grieve this unimaginable tragedy, Kevin and I pray for the victims’ family members and the law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. We ask Iowans to do the same.”
(Story updated at 2:10 p.m., 7/22/22.)
(Julia Kaye, KELO.com News, contributed to this story.)
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MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) — Police say three people have been killed in a shooting at a state park in eastern Iowa and the suspected gunman is also dead.
Mike Krapfl, special agent in charge of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said in a statement that police responded to reports of the shooting at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 7 a.m. Friday.
Krapfl says officers responding to reports about a shooting found three people dead at the scene.
He did not specify how they died and has not released their identities. Officials say they later found a Nebraska man at the campground who had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
(By the Associated Press.)
