WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - A man has been arrested in connection with the September shooting at a private club in Iowa, that left two people dead and several others injured.
Willie Edward Saffold Jr., 21, was booked Monday on a charge of intimidation with a weapon and felon in possession of a firearm., the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported.
Witnesses identified him as one of the people armed with a gun and he was also identified on video, according to court records.
“The defendant was observed shooting multiple times into a crowd of people while at this location,” according to an affidavit submitted by an investigators with the Waterloo Police Department.
Deputies with the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office picked Saffold up Monday at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.
He is the first person charged in connection with the Sept. 26 shooting. No murder charges have been filed in the case.
Dacarious “Da’Curious” Burkett, 22, and Takeya M. Hogan-Camp, 28, of West Des Moines, where killed in the exchange of gunfire at the unlicensed club. Six others had gunshot wounds and survived. Several nothers were injured by debris or hurt in the chaos.
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