HERE AND SHOT UP SOME OTHER KIDS - AND WILL KEEPS.">> WE BEGIN WITH TONIGHT WITH BREAKING NEWS - IN TODAY'S DEADLY SHOOTING - AT A DES MOINES YOUTH NON-PROFIT. POLICE HAVE NOW CHARGED 18-YEAR-OLD PRESTON WALLS WITH TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER, ONE COUNT OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ONE COUNT OF CRIMINAL GANG PARTICIPATION. MOMENTS AGO OFFICERS SHARED THAT WILL KEEPS, THE FOUNDER OF "STARTS RIGHT HERE," TRIED TO ESCORT WALLS áOUT OF THE ROOM BEFORE WALLS PULLED AWAY AND OPENED FIRE, HITTING TWO TEENAGERS AND KEEPS. POLICE SAY WALLS AND BOTH OF THE TEENAGED VICTIMS ARE KNOWN GANG MEMBERS WHO BELONG TO OPPOSING GANGS. POLICE SAY EVIDENCE POIN
18-year-old charged after deadly Des Moines shooting
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Updated: 10:51 PM CST Jan 23, 2023
Police have arrested 18-year-old Preston Walls, of West Des Moines, in connection to a deadly shooting at Starts Right Here, a Des Moines outreach center.Walls is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of criminal gang participation.Police say evidence in the investigation indicates that Walls was present at Starts Right Here with a 9mm handgun. Will Keeps, a local activist who created Starts Right Here, attempted to escort Walls from the building. Walls shot both teenage victims and Keeps and ran from the scene.Police say they saw a suspicious vehicle leave the scene. Approximately 20 minutes after the shooting incident, police conducted a traffic stop on that vehicle. Two people remained in the vehicle while Walls fled on foot. Officers followed Walls into a wooded area and had K-9 units sniffing the scene. Walls was later taken into custody without incident.Walls is booked into the Polk County Jail.The two other people remain in police custody. They have not been identified.
DES MOINES, Iowa — Police have arrested 18-year-old Preston Walls, of West Des Moines, in connection to a deadly shooting at Starts Right Here, a Des Moines outreach center.
Walls is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of criminal gang participation.
Police say evidence in the investigation indicates that Walls was present at Starts Right Here with a 9mm handgun. Will Keeps, a local activist who created Starts Right Here, attempted to escort Walls from the building. Walls shot both teenage victims and Keeps and ran from the scene.
Police say they saw a suspicious vehicle leave the scene. Approximately 20 minutes after the shooting incident, police conducted a traffic stop on that vehicle. Two people remained in the vehicle while Walls fled on foot. Officers followed Walls into a wooded area and had K-9 units sniffing the scene. Walls was later taken into custody without incident.
Walls is booked into the Polk County Jail.
The two other people remain in police custody. They have not been identified.
