Sean Edward Newman was 36 when he was found fatally shot inside an apartment in the 1300 block of 23rd Street in Des Moines on the afternoon of September 2, 2020. Police treated the death as a homicide and opened an investigation.

Within a day authorities arrested 33-year-old Whitney Ann Davis of Des Moines and charged her with first-degree murder; she was booked into the Polk County Jail. A second person, 27-year-old Michael Jermaine Jacobs, was initially arrested and charged with first-degree murder, but that charge was later dropped after investigators disclosed inconsistencies in a witness’s statements and Jacobs was released.

Detectives later arrested 27-year-old Luis Anibal Alicea-Rodriguez of West Des Moines and charged him with first-degree murder and felon in possession of a firearm. Davis’s charge remained pending as the case proceeded.

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