Iowa man accused in mother's death points to other suspects
KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man is seeking to overturn a civil judgment finding him responsible for killing his mother, arguing Wednesday that new evidence suggests another suspect shot her during a farmhouse robbery.
At an unusual civil trial in December, jurors held Jason Carter responsible for Shirley Carter's 2015 shooting death and ordered him to pay $10 million in damages to her estate.
Jason Carter had argued that his father, Bill, was likely responsible for shooting the woman in the kitchen of their rural Lacona home. But jurors sided with Bill Carter, who had filed the wrongful death lawsuit seeking to hold his son responsible after a criminal investigation into the death appeared to stall.