Tag: Iowa
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Iowa school shooter showed ‘warning signs’ and ‘copycat behavior,’ police say
The student gunman in a small-town Iowa school shooting in January in which two people were killed and several others injured was known to have a fascination with school shooters and exhibited a number of unreported “warning signs,” the Iowa Public Safety Department said Friday. The new details come from an investigation into the Jan.…
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An Iowa high school’s growing Latino population made way for its first mariachi band
Iowa high school senior Miranda Estrada is a star student, a trumpet player and a drum major for the school’s marching band. She’s also part of an extracurricular group that, 20 years ago, would have seemed unusual to find in a small Iowa town: A mariachi group called Reyes del Oeste. “I grew up listening…