One of the four teens charged with murder after a deadly shooting in northwest Cedar Rapids earlier this year will not get his case moved to juvenile court.New
A judge will not move a murder case of 17-year-old to juvenile court as his lawyers requested. Judge cites lack of time and resources for rehabilitation because teen will turn 18 in about nine months.
Kiana McCune recounts hearing gunshots outside her apartment the day her 15-year-old son, Michael McCune, was fatally shot in a “targeted” attack on Feb. 18. in Cedar Rapids. She told a judge, during one of the teen’s juvenile adjudication hearing, that she “died that day with my son.”
One of the teens accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Michael Alexander McCune in Cedar Rapids in February is asking a judge to move his first-degree murder and a theft case to juvenile court, but his previous juvenile court officer said it wasn’t in the “best interest” of the teen or the community.