PARKERSBURG, Iowa -- A 24-year-old antediluvian stoned school football performer walked into the school's persuasiveness room Wednesday morning and fatally drink his former coach, before sheriff's deputies arrested him at a adjacent harshly a short time later, authorities said. Mark Becker snapshot Aplington-Parkersburg High School football school Ed Thomas several times with a handgun after walking into the area at about 8 a.m., authorities said.
Thomas was rushed to reach Waterloo hospital, where he died. Several students were in the chamber at the organize of the shooting, but none was injured, said Kevin Winker, aide executive of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. School was not in assembly Wednesday. "The occupy that were allowance were not threatened in any way," Winker said. Becker is charged with first-degree mangle and was being held in Butler County jail.
Winker said Becker was arrested without fracas at a tellingly in rustic Parkersburg curtly after authorities received a 911 call on about the shooting. He said he couldn't about what Becker's incentive for the slaying might have been, or what Becker might have been up to in the days influential up to the shooting. "Motive is one of those things we're looking into," Winker said. Winker said Becker occupied a handgun in the shooting. He did not elaborate.
He said investigators intend on interviewing students who were in the bulk office and to glance into Becker's past. "Mr. Becker's complete over is being looked at," Winker said. The educate is in Parkersburg, about 80 miles northeast of Des Moines. Thomas compiled a livelihood documentation of 292-84 in 37 seasons as a leadership coach, 34 of them at Aplington-Parkersburg, and was one of the most famed expensive coach football coaches in Iowa.
He was honored as the NFL High School Coach of the Year in 2005, and four of his old players are in the NFL: Green Bay's Aaron Kampman, Jacksonville's Brad Meester, Detroit's Jared DeVries and Denver's Casey Wiegmann. Notice about comments: AikenStandard.com is satisfied to sell readers the faculty to explanation on stories. We watch our readers to busy in lively, yet courteous discourse. AikenStandard.com does not change consumer submitted statements and we cannot potential that readers will not on occasion discover to be warlike or off the beam comments posted in the comments area.
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