Lang
7/22/22
Investigators have released the identities of the three victims in an apparent murder/suicide Friday near Maquoketa.
According to the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation, the three were identified as 42-year-old Tyler Schmidt, 42-year-old Sarah Schmidt and six-year-old Lulu Schmidt, all of Cedar Falls.
The Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner says it will conduct autopsies of all three victims, as well as 23-year-old suspect Anthony Orlando Sherwin of Nebraska.
The DCI said in an earlier statement that officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 6:30 a.m. Friday. Division assistant director Mitch Mortvedt says officers found the Schmidts shot dead in a tent. Law enforcement later found Sherwin dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooded area. Mortvedt says investigators don’t believe he had any prior relationship with the victims.