AMAZING REPORTING
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x_losThe full article is here http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2008/10/21/Metro/Police.Chokehold.Led.To.Death-3497248.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition, but it was all too good--I had to give this to you and bold the best bits. The events themselves, the extra details they saw fit to include--all great. This is very Iowa City. Ah, college.
"An Iowa City man accused of killing his neighbor after a game of chess on Sunday reportedly used a Brazilian jiu-jitsu chokehold on the man until he "didn't look so good" - but then immediately afterward tried to revive him with CPR, police said on Monday.
When that didn't work, David Christian, 29, 418 Brown St. Apt. 6, frantically knocked on a neighbor's door, and that person called the police, authorities said. Meanwhile, Michael Steward, 39, 418 Brown St. Apt. 4, lay unconscious in the apartment building's common room, dying.
Early Sunday morning, Steward was declared dead at Mercy Hospital, and police charged Christian with second-degree murder. He also faces a public intoxication charge.
He made his initial court appearance Monday via video at the Johnson County Jail. His bond was set at $500,000.
On Monday, friends and neighbors placed beer cans and other seemingly random items - a stick of butter, grapes - outside of Steward's apartment door, which was emblazoned with: DEAD. The word was written thickly in black ink. Underneath it, a knife was jammed into the door.
Pinned to the wall was Steward's picture with "Tin Man is dead" and "mostly ghost" written on it.
Neighbors who knew the two men said on Sunday that Christian and Steward were close and often played chess and Scrabble together. The two also drank a lot, neighbors said.
Christian, an Iowa City West High graduate, has no previous criminal record, according to Iowa Courts Online.
During high school, the 1997 graduate swam competitively, and he is an Iowa City record holder for a meet he swam in 1994, when he completed a 500-yard freestyle in slightly more than five minutes."
"An Iowa City man accused of killing his neighbor after a game of chess on Sunday reportedly used a Brazilian jiu-jitsu chokehold on the man until he "didn't look so good" - but then immediately afterward tried to revive him with CPR, police said on Monday.
When that didn't work, David Christian, 29, 418 Brown St. Apt. 6, frantically knocked on a neighbor's door, and that person called the police, authorities said. Meanwhile, Michael Steward, 39, 418 Brown St. Apt. 4, lay unconscious in the apartment building's common room, dying.
Early Sunday morning, Steward was declared dead at Mercy Hospital, and police charged Christian with second-degree murder. He also faces a public intoxication charge.
He made his initial court appearance Monday via video at the Johnson County Jail. His bond was set at $500,000.
On Monday, friends and neighbors placed beer cans and other seemingly random items - a stick of butter, grapes - outside of Steward's apartment door, which was emblazoned with: DEAD. The word was written thickly in black ink. Underneath it, a knife was jammed into the door.
Pinned to the wall was Steward's picture with "Tin Man is dead" and "mostly ghost" written on it.
Neighbors who knew the two men said on Sunday that Christian and Steward were close and often played chess and Scrabble together. The two also drank a lot, neighbors said.
Christian, an Iowa City West High graduate, has no previous criminal record, according to Iowa Courts Online.
During high school, the 1997 graduate swam competitively, and he is an Iowa City record holder for a meet he swam in 1994, when he completed a 500-yard freestyle in slightly more than five minutes."
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Date: 2008-10-25 09:04 am (UTC)... this sounds like some really evil mojo going on. I wonder what they actually were trying to do?!
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Date: 2008-10-27 03:44 pm (UTC)