MASON CITY – Shots were fired by unknown suspects and an officer in downtown Mason City early Sunday morning.
According to the Mason City police department, on October 3, 2021, at approximately 1:13 a.m., the Mason City Police Department responded to a fight/shots fired call near State Street and Federal Avenue. When an officer arrived, they found several people fleeing the area. An officer involved shooting took place at that time.
At the request of the Mason City Police Department, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation has been called in to complete an investigation of the original shooting incident and the officer- involved shooting. The officer is on leave pending the outcome of the shooting investigation.
The Mason City Police Department was assisted at the scene by the Mason City Fire Department, the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office, the Iowa State Patrol, the Clear Lake Police Department, and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office.
Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to contact Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation SAC Mike Krapfl at krapfl@dps.state.ia.us or 563-599-4239. More information will be released regarding this incident on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
22 thoughts on “Shots fired by unknown suspects and officer in downtown Mason City”
You need to be aggressive in approach. Broken Window theory is what NEEDS to be utilized. However, I believe we won’t have the guts to enforce it.
Mason City doesn’t have the leadership to control this national trend.
Does it make a safe to stay away from downtown area makes it look not too safe white people
You have to be pretty hard up to start playing the ghetto music when the sun goes down for a few bucks. It’s the first sign of a local bar going under if you have to depend on the welfare n drug money to stay open.
Fireman Dennis Smith predicted all of this in the 1970s. Read Report from Engine Co. 89. This behavior has just taken this long to get to small town America.
D BOYZZZ vs. C BOYZZZ
Spend money fixing up a school that is losing students and a mall that is a hopeless money sponge, while the town is dying from lack of businesses, rampant crime in the streets, and a worthless and ineffective police department. We elected the city council, now we are paying the price. I remember a professor in college once told me, “Small town city government is the worst in the world. Their inflated ego’s way outdistance their meager intelligence”.
and 20k Mason Citian’s all said….amen
Smaller town politics and budget spending is the most corrupted around. been there.
Get off your ass and get the drones up and running. Don’t wait. If cities spending millions then invest in some patrol drones. The cameras are excellent. Heat seeking capabilities included in these silent watchers. Could be run by a smartphone or throw down 750k and get a couple really fancy ones. The drone police enforcement bureau will go nicely with the Space Force. Of course, the old paddy wagons with the nightsticks included works too.
Sadly we have a city council that spends millions and millions of dollars on construction projects and forgets about public safety. Remember when councilmen jon j. Was asking if rocks would break the useless skywalk windows? He should have been asking if bullets do. The council won’t talk about the out of control crime problem. It’s time to CLEAN UP MASON CITY. The town is full of thugs.
Many have moved to rural towns or acreages. Mason City is a shell of itself.
“…fleeting the area.” Top notch elucidation, nimrod. So a few darkies and a couple of beans got into it and a cop gets a paid vacation for not even cleansing the city of one piece of chit banger.
So, they’ve brought it to state and federal the center of town. Somebody knows who the shooter is, hopefully they aren’t chicken shit and come forward with a name.
shooter: Jodi Husentruit, oops still an unsolved crime, yah right!
Tequila makes the bandits loco!!
Sad our police officers have to put up with these cowards in our communities.i am glad we have people willing to do the job for the crap they have to deal with.
This is what happens when you put in a Liberal City Council. The town goes to shit and they don’t care.
what specific policies directly led to this shooting ?
Spending policies on the mall and school and NO monies allocated to crime solving or prevention.
As Charlie Daniels said it ” their is crime in the streets and I’m madder them hell, and we ain’t gonna take it no more”.
Did you read about the raises in salary that was allocated to the police? Or the fact that more people applied for jobs with the police department than have previously? Seems to me that ‘law and order’ is making out pretty well in Mason City. Perhaps if we had fewer meth heads we would have less crime. How do you propose to eliminate the need for drugs that exists here?
Liberal small town boards crush small town communities. Spend spend spend aka Biden.