On March 22, 2019, 36-year-old Brock Neibuhr of Dike, Iowa, was shot and killed while sitting on a couch at his father’s rural Fairbank home. The initial call to Buchanan County Dispatch reported a stabbing, but Bremer County Sheriff’s deputies found Brock with a fatal gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. His father, 59-year-old Daniel Niebuhr (also spelled Niebuhr), was at the residence and, according to law enforcement, confessed to shooting his son in the head.

Reports say Brock had gone to his father’s house to help him despite his wife’s concerns about the elder man’s mental state. Brock’s wife described him as a devoted husband and father who loved his wife and daughter above all.

What details about motive or the events leading up to the shooting have not been made clear to the public?