{"id":558662,"date":"2026-02-12T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/?p=558662"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:39:07","slug":"mccarthy-trial-continued-for-another-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/news\/mccarthy-trial-continued-for-another-month\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy trial continued for another month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Council Bluffs, IA) &#8211; A Judge in the Pottawattamie County case against a man charged in connection with a shooting incident in Avoca on Oct. 9th, 2025, has granted a request by Defense Attorney Joseph Hrvol, to continue the trial of <strong>Shaun Patrick McCarthy<\/strong>, of Avoca, until March 10th. The request was granted by Judge Amy Zacharias just one day before the 29-year-old McCarthy was set to stand trial on the charges of domestic abuse assault, attempted murder, reckless use of a firearm, going armed with intent, three counts of child endangerment\u2014substantial risk, and willful injury resulting in bodily injury. McCarthy has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>On October 9th, the Pottawattamie County Sheriff\u2019s Office took a report at a little after 8-p.m., of a person injured in a shooting in Avoca. The victim suffered minor injuries in the shooting. Deputies arrived on scene and determined the shooting occurred at a rural residence just west of Avoca, that the suspect was believed to still be in the home with minor children, and more gunfire was reported from the rural residence.<\/p>\n<p>The Pottawattamie County Emergency Response Team and Negotiators responded to the scene west of Avoca. While deploying to the residence more gunfire was heard coming from near the home, and a male suspect, identified as Shaun McCarthy, was located outside. After a brief standoff, McCarthy was taken into custody, and the minor children were found to be safe and unharmed inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>The Pottawattamie County Sheriff\u2019s Office was assisted by the Shelby County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Iowa State Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"0","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kjan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}