PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) - A man has been charged with murder after a woman shot in the head early Thursday in a Des Moines suburb died on Friday at a hospital.
Pleasant Hill police said Bethany Castro, 25, of Des Moines died Friday morning after being shot early Thursday in the suburb just east of Des Moines.
Phillip Koromah, 32, of Pleasant Hill, had initially been charged with attempted murder, but that charge was changed to first-degree murder after Castro’s death, police said.
Officers arrested Koromah after spotting him speeding in a car near where the shooting occurred. He has been held in the Polk County Jail and is awaiting his first appearance in court.
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