DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Police in Des Moines have identified a man fatally shot last week in the city’s first homicide of the year.
Darrell Merriwether, 52, of Clive, died early Saturday after being shot late Friday night in a residential area several blocks southeast of Drake University, the Des Moines Police Department said Monday in a news release.
Officers and firefighters called to the scene found Merriwether around 11:20 p.m. Friday with gunshot wound and rushed him to a local hospital, where he later died, police said.
Police did not announce any arrests or suspects in the Monday release.
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