Fort Madison, Iowa (KHQA) – The police authority of Fort Madison examines a shootout that affects a middle school student.
At around 2:00 a.m. on March 12, the Fort Madison police authority received a 911 call from one person who said that someone had been shot in the 500 block of 10th Street.
When the officials arrived, they found a young man with a gunshot wound on the upper body.
The victim was taken to a hospital in which he was later declared dead.
An autopsy was planned in the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny and the results are still pending.
Later on this day, Fort Madison officers were called to Fort Madison Middle School because they interpreted the news about the victim's death as a threat to the school.
The police authority of Fort Madison and the Fort Madison Community school district found that there was no threat to children or schools and that all social media posts were wrong.
However, for the protection and security of our schools, the Fort Madison police authority hired additional civil servants to school.
The case is examined by the police authority of Fort Madison, the sheriff office of the Lee County, the Iowa department for criminal investigations and the Lee County law firm.
The general public has no threat.
