DES MOINES, Iowa – The victim of a shooting in Des Moines’ Capitol Park neighborhood earlier this month has died and now police are investigating the city’s first homicide of 2022.
Police say the victim, 24-year-old Trishay Thompson of Des Moines, died shortly after 7:00 a.m. Thursday at a Des Moines hospital. Thompson was injured in a shooting on the evening of January 9 in the 1400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.
WHO 13 spoke to Thompson’s family a few weeks ago and they said he did not live at the apartment complex where the shooting happened but had been dropping off a friend.
Police have not released any information about a possible suspect in the case but their investigation continues.