DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police in eastern Iowa have arrested a man accused of shooting another man in the parking lot of a Davenport funeral home, where he was attending his 8-year-old son’s funeral. The Quad-City Times says 26-year-old Jeramie Shorter, of Davenport, was shot Saturday morning outside Weerts Funeral Home and later died. Shorter was at there to attend the funeral of his son, Jermier Leon Shorter, who died from cancer.

Police later arrested 24-year-old Nuemonei Tre Vonne Laster, of Davenport, who appeared in court Sunday on charges of first-degree murder, eluding, and weapons counts. He is being held on a $300,000 cash bond.

The Creston Police Department reports two recent arrests. Sunday night, 47-year old Emily Cook, of Creston, was arrested  for OWI 1st. Cook was released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond. And, at around 6:45-p.m. on Friday, 18-year old Chandler Parker, of Creston, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on a Union County Warrant for Assault Causing Bodily Injury. Parker was released from the Union County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) – Physicians from around the state gathered on the Iowa Capitol steps this weekend to call on Governor Reynolds to either issue a statewide mask mandate — or at least allow local officials to require face coverings in public places. Dr. Brian Privett, an ophthalmologist in Cedar Rapids, is president of the Iowa Medical Society. “Our message is clear,” he says. “The benefits of wearing masks and mandating the use of masks far outweigh the downsides.”

Austin Baeth, an internal medicine doctor from Des Moines, says Iowa is one of only two states in the country without a public policy on masks. “Iowa is on the cusp of catastrophe and we need to do everything we can do now,” he said. “…Face masks work.” Iowa Public Health Association Lina Tucker-Reinders says too many Iowans are not wearing a mask in public. “We, your public health and health care communities of Iowa, are calling on Governor Reynolds to do the right thing: ‘Support a mask mandate, ideally statewide,” Tucker-Reinders said, “but minimally allowing local authorities to have local control.'”

Last Thursday, Reynolds said a lot of the states with a mask mandate aren’t enforcing it. “If you look at some of the states and the timelines that they actually issued a mandate, the cases are still rising, so you know it’s just there’s not a silver bullet,” Reynolds says. “There’s not a single answer.” Reynolds says she’ll continue with a public service campaign encouraging Iowans to “mask up” as an effective way to slow the spread of Covid-19, but she says while medical professionals say mask use is effective, there are people who “would tell you just the opposite.”