Iowa woman is shot dead in apparent random attack

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A 25-year-old Iowa woman was killed and a 32-year-old man injured when a random bullet struck them as they were driving home.

A 25-year-old Iowa woman was killed and a 32-year-old man wounded when they were both hit by the same bullet in an apparent random attack as they were driving home from work early Sunday morning.

Police in Waterloo, Iowa, and a local crime-stopping unit are offering a $7,000 reward for the person responsible for killing Micalla “KK” Rettinger and wounding her friend, Adam Kimball. Rettinger was shot in her neck through the driver's seat window, and the bullet then hit Kimball, according toPolice say Rettinger and Kimball were returning home from work when they were shot at around 2:30am. Rettinger's fatherthat his daughter was likely driving her boyfriend home after an evening shift at a bar.

After being shot, Rettinger managed to drive the car to a highway exit, where she was later pronounced dead, according to KWWL. Kimball is being treated for his injury. "It seems so out of the ordinary and so random and senseless that I can't even get my mind around it," Rettinger's father told the Register.Waterloo Police Major Joe Leibold told KWWL in Waterloo that road rage was"one of the first things we looked into," but that didn't appear to be the cause of the shooting.

 

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do you know how many times a day this happens and you NEVER cover it.

It will never stop

The shooter NEEDS a gun for protection. We are so freakin stupid . Maybe we deserve the people, WE ELECT !

a hunter at 2:30 AM

Republican 'thoughts and prayers' in 3...2...

Sad.

That is crazy

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