Jury selection and initial proceedings began today at the Des Moines County District Court for 49-year-old Tisha Renee Bounds, who is accused of fatally stabbing a man in an apartment nearly a year ago.
Prosecutors allege Bounds stabbed a 33-year-old man during an argument inside an apartment in the 300 block of Angular Street on March 1, 2025. Officers responding to a reported medical emergency discovered the victim with a single stab wound. He was transported to Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center, where he later died. Investigators identified the victim as Derius Lashaun Moore of Chicago.
Burlington Police say witnesses told detectives that Bounds and the victim had been involved in a dispute shor
tly before the stabbing. According to the arrest affidavit, after the argument ended, Bounds grabbed a knife and stabbed the man in the back. The Burlington Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, with help from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, handled the case.
Bounds was charged with first-degree murder and has been held in the Des Moines County Jail without bond pending court proceedings. She entered a plea of not guilty ahead of the trial