ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Police in suburban Des Moines say an 18-year-old man has been arrested for the shooting death of a pregnant teenager earlier this month at an Ankeny hotel. Police say in a news release that Donault Logan, of Des Moines, turned himself in shortly before noon Friday to Ankeny police outside of the Polk County Jail.

Logan faces charges of involuntary manslaughter, the killing of a fetus under Iowa law and several other counts in the Aug. 3 death of 17-year-old Mia Holmes, of Ankeny. Logan was Holmes’ boyfriend and has said the shooting was an accident that happened when he was removing the gun from a bag and it fired, hitting Holmes.

BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) — Authorities identified the man shot to death by a Bettendorf police officer 53-year-old Timothy Alan Clevenger, of Silvis. Clevenger was killed in the Thursday afternoon shooting after officers responded to a Bettendorf home. Officers say Clevenger was holding a sharp-edged weapon near children, putting them in danger, when he was shot. The Quad-City Times reported Friday that county records listed Clevenger as the owner of the home where the shooting occurred.

It was registered as a child-development home. Police say they won’t identify the officer who shot Clevenger until state investigators formally interview the officer. The officer is on administrative leave.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a teen motorcyclist who led police on a high speed chase in Polk County died after crashing the bike. The Iowa State Patrol says the crash happened Thursday afternoon, killing 18-year-old Matthew James Harris, of Mitchellville. Investigators say he sped off when Pleasant Hill police tried to stop him. The patrol says Harris lost control of the bike near an intersection and was thrown from bike, sustaining fatal injuries. Police say was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.

DES MOINES – Iowans will begin receiving absentee ballot request forms from the Secretary of State’s Office this weekend. Secretary Paul Pate is sending the forms statewide to active registered voters ahead of the November general election to encourage social distancing at polling places during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Pate, “Iowans have options about how they choose to cast their vote. You can vote from home, you can vote in-person at your county auditor’s office, or at the polls on Election Day. The key is we want every eligible Iowan to participate and to be safe while voting.”

The forms include pre-paid, first class mail postage and an envelope to return the request form to the voter’s county auditor. Secretary Pate’s statewide mailing of absentee ballot request forms in the June primary resulted in record-high voter participation of more than 530,000 Iowans.

Many voters have already received absentee request forms for the November general election from county auditors, political parties and other groups. You only need to send in one form, unless you returned a mailing sent by your county auditor in Linn and Woodbury counties. Judicial rulings have invalidated forms that were pre-filled by those auditors. A hearing on a similar mailing sent by the Johnson County auditor is scheduled for Wednesday, September 9.

The mailing from the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office includes information about how to vote absentee or on Election Day. County auditors will begin mailing ballots on October 5. Ballot request forms must be received no later than Saturday, October 24 at 5 p.m. Iowans can track that status of their absentee ballot at this link.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police have found that the June shooting death of an Illinois man by an eastern Iowa officer during civil unrest in Davenport was justified. The Quad-City Times reports that Scott County Attorney Mike Walton announced the finding Thursday in the June 1 shooting death of 23-year-old Marquis Tousant, of Rock Island, Illinois. Walton says an investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation found that Tousant was among those who opened fire on an unmarked Davenport police pickup truck that was patrolling the area, seriously injuring an officer driving the truck.

Walton says another officer in the truck, Lt. Greg Behning, returned fire, killing Tousant.