Shooting at 1100 BLOCK OF 20TH PLACE on 07/04/2026 12:00 AM

Type: Shooting

Date: 07/04/2026 12:00 AM

Description: Juvenile killed at party after verbal argument escalated into shooting; handgun fired into crowd

Address: 1100 BLOCK OF 20TH PLACE, West Des Moines, IA

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Area Missing Persons

Name

Amiryssa Clark

Missing Age

Est. Current Age

Last Seen

Clive, IA on 08/06/2023

Physical Description

Race: White Ethnicity: Gender: Female Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Height: 5'0" Weight: 162 lbs

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Area Cold Cases

Name

Robert D Scott

Age

Cause of Death

Homicide

Info

Robert d. Scott, a 43-year-old des moines cab driver, was killed on duty may 30, 1996, while driving his taxi in the 1000 block of east 12th street.Scott is one of thousands of taxi drivers memorialized on the taxi-library website’s taxi driver memoriam list, and one of 10 iowans slain. Six of iowa’s 10 cases remain unsolved.The full list of iowa taxi-drivers killed on duty includes:

Agency

Iowa

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