On the morning of April 25, 2022, 36-year-old Dustin Frondle was found in the street at 12th Avenue and Auburn Drive SW in Cedar Rapids with a gunshot wound to his chest. A call to the Joint Communications Agency just before 3:15 a.m. prompted officers to the scene, where emergency responders and officers performed CPR. Frondle was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department classified the death as a homicide and described it as an isolated incident, noting it was the city’s sixth murder that year. In the days and weeks after the shooting the investigation continued but few details were released; no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and the circumstances immediately preceding the shooting have not been disclosed.

If anyone saw activity near 12th Avenue and Auburn Drive SW that morning or has information about Dustin’s death, please share what is known with the Cedar Rapids Police Department.