Chase A. Jones, 22, was found with a gunshot wound at a residence on Lyman Street in Lyman, Iowa, on the evening of Thursday, July 11, 2019. Deputies from the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded after a call about a shooting around 7:00 p.m. Emergency responders from Griswold Rescue transported Jones to Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, where he was pronounced dead.

Initial dispatch reports suggested the neck wound may have been caused by an accidental misfire of a nine-millimeter handgun. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation opened a joint investigation, and an autopsy was scheduled at the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny. No arrests or suspects had been publicly identified in the initial reports and the investigation was described as ongoing.

If anyone witnessed the incident on Lyman Street or has information relevant to the investigation, please come forward.