In the early morning hours of November 17, 2016, police in Mason City, Iowa, responded to a report of a shooting at a home in the northeastern part of the city around 2:15 a.m. Inside the residence officers found two victims: 37-year-old Caleb J. Christensen and 54-year-old Melinda Kavars. An autopsy found Christensen died from multiple sharp-force injuries; Kavars had been shot.

Officers apprehended a suspect, 30-year-old Peter Veal of Lake Mills, within about fifteen minutes after a brief foot chase roughly half a mile from the scene. Veal was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Those who knew Christensen remembered him as kind-hearted, someone who could make a friend of anyone, a 1998 Mason City High School graduate who played hockey, loved hunting, fishing and his dogs, and was a father to one daughter. Does anyone who knew Caleb or saw activity in that neighborhood that night have information to share?