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4/16/22
A local transient has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery and attempted murder charges.
36-year-old Trell Grant was originally scheduled to be sentenced on Monday. But online records show earlier this month judge Lars Anderson sentenced Grant to 25 years in prison on an Attempted Murder charge and ten years behind bars on a 1st Degree Robbery charge. The two sentences will run consecutively.
Grant could have been sentenced to up to 50 years behind bars, but the penalty as reduced in a plea deal with prosecutors.
Iowa City Police say Grant entered Delimart on Lower Muscatine Road on August 21st, 2020, walked behind the counter, and quickly and repeatedly stabbed the clerk with a knife until the clerk opened the cash register drawer. Grant then fled the scene with money from the register.
The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of multiple stab wounds and required immediate surgery.
Grant was taken into custody later that day at the Town & Campus Apartments on Arthur Street after police found his bag at the scene of the attack.