Karlos Laverne Gold Jr., a 29-year-old Black man from Des Moines, was found with a gunshot wound inside a truck parked in the 600 block of 18th Street in the Sherman Hill neighborhood on the afternoon of Monday, December 2, 2019. He was taken to a hospital but died of his injuries.

The Des Moines Police Department treated the case as a homicide. On the evening of Thursday, December 5, 2019, officers located and arrested 39-year-old Wayne Jemerigbe in the 1900 block of College Avenue. Jemerigbe was charged with first-degree murder and with being a felon in possession of a firearm and was booked into the Polk County Jail awaiting his initial court appearance.

If anyone saw activity near 18th Street in Sherman Hill on December 2, 2019, or has information about the events that led to Karlos Gold Jr.’s death, please come forward.