9-year-old survived Iowa campground shooting that killed family, mayor says
The state medical examiner is set to conduct autopsies on the victims, as well as on Sherwin, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said. A motive was not yet clear Sunday afternoon.Green said he was “devastated” by the Schmidts’ deaths, noting that they were “regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood” of Cedar Falls, a city of 40,000.
Felicia Coe of Des Moines told The Washington Post that she, her boyfriend and his children were camping nearby when they heard “two loud thuds” but did not think much of them. But then, she said, her boyfriend and a friend who was also camping there heard a scream and noises that they thought were fireworks. Later, Coe said, she saw a boy waiting near a pair of ambulances wearing a pajama set and one blue shoe.
“We think might have sensed trouble and grabbed the gun for safety,” Cecilia Sherwin wrote. “We refuse to believe the news. We are deeply saddened as he had so much to live for and gave us no indication that anything was wrong.”
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