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WATERLOO – The Waterloo Police is returning to the vicinity of Lake Brinker to investigate the death of a woman who was driving on Highway 218 early Sunday.
The woman's identity has not been unveiled and an autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday, said Major Joe Leibold of the Waterloo Police Department.
According to the police, the woman was driving south on Highway 218 around 2:38 am Sunday, when a bullet broke a side window – not the windshield as previously stated – and hit her neck. The projectile then struck a passenger of the vehicle. The woman stopped near the Greenhill Road exit.
She was declared dead on the scene. The injured passenger was taken to hospitals and clinics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and is expected to survive, police said. The second man in the vehicle was not injured.
The shooting took place as the woman's jeep was crossing bridges over Brinker Lake and the Cedar River. The area below is very woody.
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Leibold said one of the men in the vehicle was working in a Cedar Falls bar that night and that they were going home at the time of the shots. He added that, according to initial reports, there would be no other vehicle on the road in this area and that there were no problems or other incidents leading to the shooting.
The police did not receive any other information reporting vehicles damaged by gunfire, and there were no reports of gunfire in the surrounding areas during the period, said Leibold.
The investigators collect fragments of the bullet for ballistic purposes.
Anyone informed of the shooting is asked to call the Waterloo Police Service at 291-4340, ext. 7, or Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers at 855-300-TIPS (8477).
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