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The shooting
happened minutes after a white man matching his description
fired several shots a few miles away at a law firm in a building
that also has a military recruiting center, which was not a
target, Bettendorf spokeswoman Lauran Haldeman said.
Haldeman said that Bettendorf police were responding to a report
of shots fired at a prosthesis and brace-making business when
they saw the man holding a handgun in the parking lot.
"When the suspect saw the officers he fired one round to his
head," Haldeman said. "It was a fatal wound."
There were no other injuries in the Bettendorf shooting, she
said.
Calls to the business, Miller-Meier Limb and Brace Inc, were not
answered. The emergency room at UnityPoint Health-Trinity
Bettendorf across the street from the fatal shooting was locked
down during the incident, spokeswoman Erin Platt said.
About 10 minutes before the Bettendorf shooting and about 5
miles (8 km) away, Davenport police received reports of shots
fired at a law firm in a building shared by a military
recruiting office, Haldeman said.
Several shots were fired inside the Davenport building, but no
one was wounded and the suspected gunman was not there when
police arrived, Haldeman said. Two people received superficial
injuries in the incident, she added.
All personnel from a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in the
building were accounted for and unharmed, said Captain James
Stenger, spokesman for the 9th Marine Corps Recruiting District.
(Reporting by John Peragine; Additional reporting by Mary
Wisniewski in Chicago and Ben Klayman in Detroit; Writing by
David Bailey; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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