"we're switching it from columns, from aggravated assault to now homicide. that hurts. he's not just a column. he's not just a statistic. this is real life." our top story tonight. an area man's death may change the way local police are investigating -- but it doesn't take any of theh victim's family. police in waterloo say 45- year-old shawn north recently died -- from complications to gunshot wounds he suffered 15 years ago. while the case has been cold as an assault investigation -- it is now re-classified as a homicide. kwwl's lauren moss speaing with north's sisters today- she joins us

15 years..that's how long these sisters have been caring for their brother. it's been 15 years of heartache- with complication after he was never the same. you could never be the same. shawn north's life was forever changed on may 2001 he told police two men wanted to steal his truck- when he denied they shot him in his driveway. the suspects then took off- leaving the car but taking shawn's independance. his sisters there every step of the way. loved him..no one else would come in the middle of the night or holidays or weekends..so i did. it's been 15 years of complications and infections- adding to his sisters heartaches. thankfully he didnt die but then you question what was his quality of life..he was never the same. you could never be the same. ultimately- a complication from one of his gunshot wounds killed him. his sisters- still coping with his loss..

carrying a pillow at 3 in the morning.. 15 years of being there every day and night..they miss their brother... but he is in a better this as a homicide now we are switching it, columns..from aggrvated assault to now homicide. that hurts, he is not just a comlumn..not a state..this is real life. his sisters now left with their brother's ashes..and beloved dog..want answers. investigators are hoping with new light on this case now- that new information will come up. in the studio, lauren moss news 7 kwwl

died at allen hospital. anyone with information is asked to call the waterloo police. many of you are getting ready to travel this week -- let's go to latest on the weather. from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: we tonight through wednesday. late tonight into tuesday morning, a light wintry mix is temperatures warm above freezing widespread in the afternoon and i wednesday morning before tapering off in the afternoon. wind tuesday and tuesday night becomes light on wednesday. thanksgiving day is dry, but we are tracking a chance for light iowa would be 1" of snow or forecast to bring more rain for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl forecast to impact us late tonight through wednesday. late wintry mix may linger into tuesday morning. temperatures warm above freezing by late tuesday morning changing any mix to rain. rain the night and into wednesday temperatures most of the time in the upper 30s. a gusty southeast thanksgiving day is dry, but we

less. highs will stay in the 40s through the weekend. we are tracking another storm forecast to bring more rain sunday into monday. an area apartment is rammed by a car -- and a woman inside comes mere feet away from getting hit. this all happening along prospect avenue in waterloo on saturday. a nieghbor took this video of of the house. officers say the driver of the car drove away -- only to park the car down the street from struck house. here's a look at the house today -- as you can see, a lot of the debris is still on the ground inside and outside of the house. as kwwl's taylor bailey shows us tonight -- the homeowner got a it took seconds... "i sat down in the chair and i vergie hechavarria was sitting just feet from the car

"i would say a yard, about three feet from hitting me, that's how callhoun admits to backing into her home. "and i take full responsbility thing i know i passed out and when i come to i looked back and i had hit these folks house" seconds after backing into the home--he quickly pulled out. "an then when i hollard oh my god, the person didn't check to see if i was under the car, they proceeded to put it in gear and drive out" "now this is where vergie says she usually sits at the end of her love seat, and this is where the car came through her appartment. she says if she was sitting in her usual spot she would have been hit" "it was just like okay i am gonna sit down i know it wasn't then just to see a car sitting

shaken up and so is vergie. "i mean physically i am okay, but mentally i am kind of tramitized by the whole ordeal" rivers has been charged with operating under the influence though he tells me he was not his breath. bailey...news seven...kwwl for now vergie is staying in a hotel--she says even when she something else will come through the front window. police say an area man was stabbed several times today during a disturbance with his wife. 42-year-old vanessa tillman- johnson faces an assault charge

early this morning. officers responded to the couple's dubuque house in the 18- hundred block of white street. once inside -- they say 40-year-old matthew johnson was restraining the woman by holding her arms. police say johnson was stabbed by his wife numerous times. he was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. an eastern iowa crash turns deadly. the one-car accident happening in cedar falls -- at the interchange of highway 57 and highway 218 at around two-44 this afternoon. witnesses say the car struck a pillar near the interchange. cedar falls police say a man was the only person in the car at the time of the crash -- and that he was found dead at the scene. they say an investigation into the accident is continuing to come. new at six -- police in the area are investigating a possible case of animal torture on a deer. we're going to show you a picture of the deer -- but want

disturbing. the bremer county sheriff says it found this deer with a rope around its neck after recieving a call to the 100 block of main street in plainfield over the weekend. officers say its antlers had been removed and it appeared as though the animal had been dragged to the spot. an invesigation with the d-n-r is now underway. elsewhere -- the dubuque community school district now has a committee to book. the 11-person committee met for the first time today to talk about the perks of being a wallflower--a book assigned to students this year at hempstead high school. this after a formal complaint brought forward by a concerned parent -- alleging the book contains graphic material, and normalizes drug and alcohol use. we'll have much more on this coming up tonight on the kwwl news at ten. in a kwwl follow-up a grand jury

face criminal charges for shooting a man. it happened near coe college in cedar rapids during a traffic stop at the beginning of the month. kwwl's kristin rogers explains how this process will work--kristin? the jury will be made up of seven people-- chosen randomly from the community-- it will take five of them voting it's created waves in cedar rapids for weeks-- an officer-ine nats of scanner since then people have been demanding answers about jerime mitchell nats of protest police not releasing the dash cam video--- multiple protest have taken place--as shown in this youtube video. many people waiting in the hallway of last weeks city council meeting--wanting answers. friends say mitchell is

from police--said mitchell started some sort of fight with the officer before getting shot-- but many people--want to be able to see what happened. nat from protest officer lucas jones who pulled the trigger is on administrative leave-- jones was a part of another officer involved shooting just last year--something many are questioning. "an officer who has a history in shooting you know killing somebody and now paralizing somebody that doesn't add up, something needs to be done they need to let although a man was killed in last year's shooting--the shooting was deemed justified. whether officer jones faces charges-- the jury will be given all of the evidence--and they will decide-- something the linn county attorney believes is in the public's best interest. jerime mitchell's family has

but many people in this community--have done just the opposite--- the grand jury will meet in private but once they have made their decision about officer jones-- that information will be released. live in cedar rapids--kristin rogers news 7 kwwl. this investigation is being done by the iowa division of criminal investigation-- the linn county attorney telling us-- early release of dash cam footage-- could compromise the investigation. coming up on kwwl -- a long- standing church has an identity change within one iowa community. and... here's a live look at the storm track 7 live doppler radar.... chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg will have your full forecast, coming up.

let's go to storm track seven chief meteorologist mark

7 weather team. see the screen for your complete weather information. here is additional forecast from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team. see the screen for your complete stormtrack 7 weather team: we are tracking a storm forecast to impact us late morning, a light wintry mix is temperatures warm above freezing by late tuesday morning changing any mix to rain. rain through the night and into temperatures most of the time in the upper 30s. a gusty southeast thanksgiving day is dry, but we accumulation across eastern iowa would be 1" of snow or less. highs will stay in the 40s kwwl stormtrack here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: tonight into tuesday morning, a light wintry mix is possible north of highway 20. the light wintry mix may linger into tuesday morning. temperatures warm above freezing by late through the night and into wednesday morning before tapering off in the afternoon. this will be a cold rain with are tracking a chance for light snow thursday night followed by a dry friday. any snow 40s through the weekend. we are tracking another storm 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: we are tracking a storm

wintry mix may linger into tuesday morning. morning before tapering off in the afternoon. this will be a cold rain with temperatures most of the time in snow thursday night followed by a dry friday. any snow 40s through the weekend. we are tracking another storm 7 weather team. see the screen information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: we are tracking a storm light wintry mix is possible north of highway 20. the light wintry mix may linger into tuesday morning. morning before tapering off in the afternoon. this will be a cold rain with snow thursday night followed by a dry friday. any snow 40s through the weekend. we are tracking another storm forecast to bring more rain sunday into monday. a historic area church, once at risk of being torn down...is now stormtrack 7 weather team: we are tracking a storm morning, a light wintry mix is temperatures warm above freezing by late tuesday morning changing any mix to rain. rain becomes widespread in tapering off in the afternoon.

snow thursday night followed by a dry friday. any snow through the weekend. we are tracking another storm forecast to bring more rain sunday into monday. from the information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl stormtrack 7 weather team: we tonight into tuesday morning, a tuesday morning. temperatures warm above freezing by late tuesday morning changing any mix to rain. rain becomes widespread tapering off in the afternoon. wind tuesday and tuesday night becomes light on wednesday. thanksgiving day is dry, but we accumulation across eastern iowa would be 1" of snow or less. forecast to bring more rain sunday into monday. from the information. here is additional forecast information from the kwwl tonight into tuesday morning, a wintry mix may linger into tuesday morning. temperatures warm above freezing by late through the night and into temperatures most of the time in the upper 30s. a gusty southeast wind tuesday and tuesday night church, once at risk of being torn down...is now being transformed into a community center.

downtown dubuque, part of that community for over 100 years. it's now known as steeple square. kwwl's shirley descorbeth live in dubuque with details. shirley. many people here in dubuque have fond memories of saint mary's parish. they tell me...this project will benefit the community. renovations are taking place at saint mary's parish... a landmark -- with strong ties to dubuquers. "ie married here 48 year ago this old church closed several years ago... and it was at risk of being torn down. but then a group of about saving dubuque's rich history. those involved say it's also about revitalizing a part of the community that for so long had been neglected." it's now being transformed into a center for the community called steeple square. "now this area here is gonna be converted into a vibrant community center, that will be

various activities." the campus will also include a childcare center...here at the rectory. and its former school is being converted into an affordable apartment building... one that'll be used to house homeless women and children from the maria house shelter. many here, excited to learn of these future plans. "i am delighted to hear of the square...i think it'll be a tremendous benefit to the community." there are also plans to renovate the parish, but i'm told the inside will

that should be complete sometime next year. and the daycare center, after that. in dubuque, shirley descorbeth, news 7 kwwl. the cost to transform the historic church is 12-million dollars... they still need about five-million more. for more information on the project -- visit kwwl dot com. coming up... after a pair of bad jergen klinsman is out as the u-s men's head soccer coach -- plus -- awards galore -- the hawkeyes, cyclones, and panthers sweep the weekly conference

another great year of hoops for fans in iowa -- the state swept the weekly awards given out by the big 12, big ten, and missouri valley conferences -- we'll start it off with iowa state's monte morris -- who was named the big 12's player of the week after he notched just the 5th triple double in iowa state history -- morris scored 17 points, dished out 10 assists, and grabbed 10 rebounds in the cyclones 130, 67 win over the citadel -- that 130 points i t state history -- moving on -- it was peter jok grabbing the honor in the big ten -- jok averaged better than 28 points per game in iowa's 2 hall he set a pair of personal bests with 30 points and 11 boards -- that also marked his first career double-double -- and jeremy morgan rounded out the trio -- being named player of the week in the valley -- morgan averaged a double-double -- 19 points and ten boards --

orlando -- he helped lead uni to wins over arizona state and oklahoma before falling to 11th ranked xavier -- altough uni gets another shot at the musketeers this weekend -- but the awards didn't stop on the hoops floor -- iowa running back leshun daniels is the big ten's offensive player of the week after running for a season high 159 yards and two scores in the win at illinois -- daniels now has five 1-hundred plus yard performances in his career -- cotton-moya picked up the defensive award in the big 12 -- cotton-moya forced two turnovers -- including a 48 yard pick six in the cyclones drubbing of texas tech -- isu's defense allowed just 10 points -- which was 36 below the red raiders average -- six days after an embarrassing 4, nothing loss to costa rica in world cup qualifying -- u-s coach jurgen klinsman is out of a job --

cup title in 2013 and to the second round of the 20-14 world cup -- but the team now sits oh and 2 in the final round of qualifying for 20-18 -- former national team coach bruce arena appears to be the front-runner as klinsman's replacement -- stick around -- we'll be right

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