Two gang members charged in a deadly shooting at an educational program for at-risk youth in Des Moines appeared to be seeking retaliation after a rival gang member rapped dismissively about a fatal police shooting, new court documents suggest.
The details disclosed in applications for search warrants connect the two Iowa shootings as well as one in Arizona for the first time. All told, four people died in the complicated jumble of interconnected violence, some of it gang related.
