Jose David López Pérez

Death by Force

In the late afternoon of March 7, 2022, a burst of gunfire shattered the relative quiet outside East High School in Des Moines, Iowa, just as the school day was coming to a close. In the chaos that ensued, a 15-year-old Hispanic male named Jose David López Pérez was fatally wounded. He was not a student at the high school, but he became the sole fatality in an incident that also left two female students critically injured. Police would later describe the shooting as a targeted attack rooted in ...Read More

AP News: Iowa teen gets life in prison for fatal drive-by shooting near a school

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