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7/2/22
A convicted domestic abuser faces charges that he discharged a firearm multiple times outside a residence west of Swisher.
Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an address on the 1500 block of 120th Street NW just before 8:45pm on June 24th after a neighbor reported hearing at least ten gunshots coming from a nearby house. 35-year-old Robert Thornton of Cedar Rapids allegedly told investigators that he had been firing a 9mm handgun he keeps for home protection. The gun was found in the driver’s side door panel of the vehicle he was driving.
Thornton was convicted of domestic assault in Tennessee in 2017. He’s now charged with Dominion or Control of a Firearm by a Domestic Abuser. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison.
