CEDAR SPEED, Iowa — The sole survivor of a metal pipe attack in Iowa has died, prompting authorities to charge the suspect with a fourth count of first-degree murder.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Department alleges that 34-year-old Luke Truesdell of Marion attacked four people with a metal pipe last week at a rural Iowa home near Cedar Rapids. Three people died in the home. The fourth person, 34-year-old Brent Anthony Brown, died two days later, Sheriff Brian Gardner said in a statement Sunday.
Truesdell’s public defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press on Monday.
Authorities are still investigating what led to the attack, but Gardner has said one possible motive was to make a film of the crime. He didn’t work it out.
Gardner identified the others who were killed as 44-year-old Romondus Lamar Cooper of Cedar Rapids, 26-year-old Keonna Victoria Ryan of Cedar Rapids and 33-year-old Amanda Sue Parker of Vinton.