Author: Theresa Rose

According to court documents the Henry County Sheriff’s office has executed an arrest warrant for Samantha Shumaker of Mount Pleasant. Shumaker is charged with one count of domestic abuse assault display or use of a weapon first offense and one count of false imprisonment.  The charges are in connection with an officer involved shooting that occurred December 3 when law enforcement responded to a domestic disturbance call at a residence on North Main Street in Mount Pleasant. Shumaker was wounded by an officer at the scene during the disturbance.  The officer has been put on leave and the Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation is conducting the investigation.

The Enhance Henry County Community Foundation is planning a celebration ceremony and announcement of their eighteenth grant-making awards and results. The event will be held December 13th in the Union Block building on the north side of the Mt. Pleasant square at 11am. Grant recipients, county elected officials and the public are encouraged to attend.

The Enhance Henry County Community Foundation applied, received, and was awarded $160,670 in County Endowment Funds. Under terms of the award 75% of the funds shall be awarded to county not-for-profits, communities, and charities.

A special grantmaking committee of the foundation has been busy receiving and evaluating grant applications. 40 grant applications were received totaling over $482,000. The Enhance Henry County Community Foundation is actively seeking contributions and gifts to build the grantmaking capacity of the new foundation.

For more information contact:

The Enhance Henry County Community Foundation

Lora Roth

Administrator

319-385-8728

lora@kilj.com

AGENDA

 December 6, 2022

Approve Agenda

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9:00 Jake Hotchkiss, Engineer Weekly Update

9:30 Great River Housing Trust Fund Presentation & Request

Other County Business as time allows

Supervisors Sub-Committee Updates

On December 3, 2022, at approximately 10:04 PM, Officers of the Mt Pleasant Police Department and the Henry County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a domestic disturbance at the 700 block of Main Street, where the male caller was being held at gunpoint. Upon arrival, Officers encountered a male calling for help from the bathroom window. The male was able to exit the bathroom window. While attempting to make contact with the subject, the subject brandished a weapon and an officer discharged their weapon. The Officers were not injured during the encounter. The subject sustained a gunshot wound to the right arm as a result of the officer involved shooting.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) was notified and requested to investigate the incident. Per protocol, the Officer has been placed on Critical Incident Leave, pending the investigation. The name of the subject is being withheld, pending the continued investigation. The name of the officer is being withheld, pending an interview with DCI.

No further information will be released at this time.

Note: A criminal charge is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

KILJ News is currently waiting for details from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation regarding an incident that occurred Saturday night in Mount Pleasant.  Unofficially, it appears there was an domestic incident in the 700 block of North Main Street at about 10 pm. Unverified reports indicate one person may have been shot but that the injuries were non-life threatening. Mount Pleasant Police Chief Lyle Murray said he can not comment but did say the DCI would be releasing a report.

An expected 100,000 deer hunters will hit the timber over the next 2 weeks for the annual Iowa shotgun deer season. Again this year, hunters are encouraged to donate hides to the Elks Leather Program. Last year statewide 4,183 deer were donated, which was a slight increase from the 2021-22 season. The deer hides are used by the Veterans Leather Program to make professionally-crafted leather gloves for veterans in wheelchairs and also turned into leather used for therapy programs for recovering veterans.

The Fairfield Elks Lodge will have a number of drop-off locations in the area for hides to be placed.

Here is a list of all drop-off locations:

Fastenal/Kinney & Sons-Mt. Pleasant

Oakland Mills Nature Center-By the shop

Nelson Company-Fairfield

Libertyville Co-op

4-way corner-Packwood

Keosauqua Lumber-Keosauqua

Old Lumber Yard-Stockport

Across from BP-Batavia

Bass Storage-Birmingham