SOME CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST OTTUMWA MEN ACCUSED OF 2018 POLICE SHOOTOUT

Some charges dropped against Ottumwa men accused of 2018 police shootout

A jury in Ottumwa will begin deliberations Thursday (4/1) against two men accused of getting into a shootout with police in August 2018.  After Wednesday’s (3/31) closing arguments in the case against 26-year-old Dalton Cook and 35-year-old Michael Bibby, both of Ottumwa, Judge Joel Yates dropped eight of the ten counts of attempted murder against the two.  Cook and Bibby are now facing two counts of attempted murder and one count of first degree robbery, first degree burglary and willful injury.

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