Gary Fredrick, a 62-year-old Caucasian man, was shot and killed in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the evening of December 17, 2023. Officers found Fredrick with multiple gunshot wounds at a Harrison Street residence; he was taken to a nearby medical center and died of his injuries.

Witnesses identified 27-year-old Mensah Olloway of Omaha as the person who fired the shots after a disturbance began when Fredrick arrived at the home. Investigators later determined the shooting was an act of self-defense, finding that Fredrick had allegedly entered the residence armed with a baseball bat containing nails and a stun gun and had assaulted and threatened several women present. Olloway was not charged with murder.

The inquiry into the shooting expanded into a broader federal probe. Authorities allege that in the days before Fredrick’s death there were sex trafficking and armed robbery incidents; Olloway and three others, Rosella Weaver, Dakota Grund, and Dylan Elrod, were indicted on federal sex trafficking and armed robbery charges. Olloway also faced, then had dismissed at the state level, a felon-in-possession charge tied to an allegedly stolen gun used in the shooting.

Did anyone in the area know Fredrick or have information about the events at the Harrison Street residence that night?