Three people were killed at the scene of a man’s attack in Iowa with a metal pipe, and the only person who was still alive has died.
A press release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office says that Brent Anthony Brown, 34, was flown to a nearby hospital with injuries that could have killed him. On Friday, June 7, the Johnson County Medical Examiner declared him dead.
The release says that his body will be taken to the state medical examiner’s office for an autopsy while the murders are still being looked into.
After the event on June 5 at a home in rural Marion, Iowa, Luke Truesdell, 34, has been charged with a fourth count of first-degree murder.
Online jail records that PEOPLE looked at show that he is being held on a $4 million bond.
Romondus Lamar Cooper, 44, of Cedar Rapids; Keonna Victoria Ryan, 26; and Amanda Sue Parker, 33, of Vinton were the other people who were said to have been hurt by Truesdell.
In a previous press release, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office said that their investigation “has revealed that the victims appeared to have received their injuries as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, delivered by a metal pipe.”
Authorities said that the attack may have been planned with the idea of making the crime into a movie in mind.
In a talk with KWWL, Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks also said, “The people did know each other.”
“The depth of that relationship is still being looked into.” “We are still trying to figure out what caused this,” he said, adding that “at the very least” they were employees of the same company.
KGAN says this is the worst mass murder in eastern Iowa since March 2008, when Steve Sueppel, a banker from Iowa City who was facing federal charges of fraud, killed his wife and four adopted children before committing suicide.
