New body camera and surveillance footage shows the moments leading up to police killing Charles Leonard III in downtown Des ...

Bodycam released in police shooting of Charles Leonard. Iowa attorney general and Polk County attorney concluded use of lethal force was justified.

A report released by the Attorney General's Office says Des Moines police were justified in the shooting death of a ...

The Des Moines Police Department has released video from a fatal officer-involved shooting in downtown Des Moines in November of 2024. It contains footage from ...

Polk County Attorney Kimberly Graham said the officers "believed their actions were necessary to save the lives of officers and others in the surrounding area." ...

"It was reasonable for (officers) to conclude that their lives, the lives of other offices on scene, and the lives of everyone in the building and area were in imminent danger at the time the deadly ...

In the early hours of Nov. 26, a quiet lobby at Elsie Mason Manor became the center of a life-or-death standoff.By sunrise, ...

Two Des Moines police officers were justified in using deadly force in a shooting last month, according to a report from the Iowa attorney general's office.

The report states that Leonard's actions left officers with no other choice than to respond with deadly force given the ...

Police shot and killed Charles Leonard III after he brandished what was later determined to be an airsoft pellet gun during a confrontation in the lobby of the Elsie Mason Manor, a residence ...