FORT DODGE, Iowa - Five men charged in a Fort Dodge double murder are pleading not guilty.
The Messenger reports all five face 2nd Degree Murder charges, and all but one are charged with Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
Investigators determined the men were involved in a "volley of bullets" in the early morning hours after a neighborhood gathering back in June.
They were charged after a five-month investigation into the shooting that killed two men and wounded two women.
The two men who died were 25-year-old Jamael Cox and 47-year-old Tyrone Cunningham, both of Fort Dodge.
The five men facing murder charges are 35-year-old James C. Davis Jr., 22-year-old Jeremiha R. Hatten, 23-year-old Darrell L. Jones, 33-year-old Michael J. Wells and 55-year-old Michael J. Shivers. Shivers is from Eagle Grove. The other four are from Fort Dodge.
The two surviving women are 21-year-old Marissa Andrews of Fort Dodge and 30-year-old Jayne Bartrom of Wesley.