On December 17, 2025, deputies from the Wapello County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 report of a shooting at a home at 310 Des Moines Street in Eldon. Officers found 77-year-old Gary Keith Stevens dead at the scene from a fatal gunshot wound. Detectives interviewed witnesses and collected evidence as the county opened a homicide investigation.

Two days later, on the night of December 19, 2025, 25-year-old Jordan Wade Duncan of Eldon was taken into custody at about 10:55 p.m. without incident. He was booked into the Wapello County Jail without bond and charged with murder in the first degree and possession of a firearm or offensive weapon by a person subject to a protective order. Stevens, born in late 1947, had retired after many years as an over-the-road truck driver for Dickey Transportation and was survived by his wife Judy, children, step-children, and extended family; the family elected not to hold funeral services.

If anyone knew Gary Stevens or has information about what happened at the Des Moines Street residence on December 17, please come forward.