Four dead after shooting at Iowa state park
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anthony Orlando Sherwin is shown. Three people were killed in a shooting at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground in eastern Iowa, today, and the suspected gunman is also dead, police said. Authorities identified him as 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin.
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Emergency personnel block an entrance to the Maquoketa Caves State Park as they investigate a shooting that left several people dead, today, in Maquoketa, Iowa. The campground was evacuated in the wake of the shooting.
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Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground. Three people were killed in a shooting at a state park in eastern Iowa this morning and the suspected gunman is also dead, police said.
MAQUOKETA, Iowa >> Three people were killed in a shooting at a state park in eastern Iowa this morning and the suspected gunman is also dead, police said.
Police responded to reports of the shooting at the the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 6:30 a.m., Mike Krapfl, special agent in charge of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said in a statement.
Krapfl said officers responding to reports of shooting found three people dead at the scene, but he did not specify how they died and has not released their identities.
He said officers searching the campground later found the body of a Nebraska man who had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities identified him as 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin.
The campground was evacuated in the wake of the shooting. A children’s summer camp on site called Camp Shalom said in a Facebook post that parents had been notified and that it had established a pick-up site for campers.
Camp Shalom officials said they have accounted for all campers.
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Krapfl said the park remains closed but that there is no longer a threat to the public.
