Kelly McGowan

kmcgowan@dmreg.com

Three men were shot early Saturday near the Drake University campus, police say, and their suspected shooter is in custody.

Terrance L. Lindsay of Harvey, Ill. was charged with intimidation with a dangerous weapon in the case. He was booked into the Polk County Jail Saturday morning on a $10,000 bond. Because of uncooperative victims and witnesses, Des Moines Police spokesman Sgt. Paul Parizek said, Lindsay's charge cannot be upgraded to attempted murder or another higher charge.

At 2:27 a.m., police were called to 2108 Forest Ave., where a woman said her brother had been shot. Police entered the home to find a 25-year-old man lying on the kitchen floor with blood on his legs who told police he had been shot in the left leg, according to a police report. He was "extremely distraught," and told police he had been shot by the back door of the apartment and that his brother was shot in the head, the report states.

The victim was taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center. That victim's girlfriend reportedly took the second victim, a 30-year-old man who had been shot in his head, to Mercy Medical Center.

The caller did not hear gunshots, she told police, but said that she had been sleeping on the residence's north side and the shooting happened on its south side. Another witness told police she heard gunshots.

Shell casings and bullets were found in the apartment's parking lot, the report states, along with a bullet hole and blood spatter on a south wall.

Another officer was dispatched to Mercy after staff reported that a man walked into the emergency room with a gunshot wound to his head, according to the report. Doctors told police that a bullet was between the victim's skull and his scalp, behind his left ear, but that his wound was not life-threatening.

That victim told police he and his brother got out of their vehicle and were shot at from an unknown direction, and that he had no idea who shot him or why. That victim was from Chicago and told police he was in Des Moines to be with family after his brother had died.

While another police officer was at Broadlawns Medical Center on an unrelated case, a 21-year-old male victim arrived in the emergency room with gunshot wounds, according to the report.

The officer questioned the victim — who said he was also from Chicago — and was told the victim was "in an unknown location when an unknown tall black male wearing unknown clothing asked him, "How much money?" and then shot him twice, the report states. He told police that two strangers took him to the hospital, and that he was staying with friends but didn't know where they lived. That victim was shot multiple times, both of which were non-life threatening as well, according to the report.

A Broadlawns security officer followed the car that dropped the victim off — a white Chevy Venture van with dealer's plates — before it stopped at a house on 32nd Street and people got out and started running. The vehicle was later stopped in the 2900 block of Hickman Road.

Parizek could not confirm the circumstances of the arrest or how Lindsay may have been connected to the victims.