Overview
- Police were dispatched about 12:12 p.m. Monday to a Park Avenue home where officers found four people fatally shot, and detectives later located two more victims at separate sites in the city.
- Authorities identified the suspect as 52-year-old Ryan Willis McFarland who was found on the Riverfront Trail with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Officials say preliminary findings point to a domestic-related dispute and that all victims are believed to be family members of the suspect; authorities are withholding names pending next-of-kin notification.
- The Muscatine Police Department is leading an active, multi-agency investigation with the Muscatine Fire Department, county sheriff’s office, Iowa State Patrol and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation while detectives conduct interviews and forensic processing.
- The killings have stunned the small riverfront community, prompted local support and counseling offers from the school district, and officials say the suspect had a prior criminal record though they have not released details.