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Brittany Daughenbaugh couldn't sleep, so the Capital University student decided to go on a Pokemon Go hunt in the early hours of Thursday morning. She had seen the men across Francis Street but paid them no mind. She was on the trail of a good catch. "Suddenly, they're behind me," Daughenbaugh, 20, said Monday. One man wore a "Make America Great Again" hat and the other a "Trump-Pence" sweatshirt. She said the sweatshirted man grabbed her arm and told her, "Don't you worry, honey. President Trump says this is OK." He then punched her in the face and the arm....

Des Moines police arrested two people Friday. 18-year-olds James Shorter and Nathaniel Russell. They're looking for a third, 18-year-old Kent Tyler. They've been charged with murdering 40-year-old Richard Daughenbaugh. The victim was brutally beat by multiple people in this parking lot. "Almost a mob mentality took over the crowd," Sgt. Jason Halifax said. He later died in the hospital Sunday night. During the fight, a couple tried to break it up, but instead two girls stole the woman's cell phone and a man beat up the good Samaritan. Leprese Derrian Williams was charged in connection with assaulting him. Friday was...

Police say they’ve made several arrests in connection with a brutal beating that killed a Des Moines man. 18-year-olds Yarvon Russell and James Shorter are in the Polk County jail charged with first degree murder. Police believe they are two of the men that beat 40-year-old Richard Daughenbaugh to death near 2nd and Center early Sunday morning. An arrest warrant has been issued for a third suspect, Kent Anthony III. Once caught, he too will be charged with murder. A warrant is also out for 21-year old Des Moines man Leprese Williams whom allegedly assaulted a bystander trying to break...

Police are still trying to figure out why a black mob beat Richard Daughenbaugh to death at a popular downtown Des Moines fishing spot one week ago. Daughenbaugh, a father of six who worked as a construction laborer, did not know his killers, say police. But at 1 a.m., he found himself exchanging words with members of a mob that numbered in the dozens. The Des Moines Register picks up the narrative with a sterile account that understates the violence and ignores the race of the attackers: The suspects allegedly beat Daughenbaugh using no weapons other than their own bodies...