Aubrey Young

Aubrey Dwayne Young

Homicide

Aubrey Dwayne Young
35 YOA
200 blk. of 16th St. SE
Near Redmond Park
Cedar Rapids, IA
Linn County
June 15, 2008

By Jody Ewing

Linn County in Iowa

Cedar Rapids in Linn County

Aubrey Young, 35, was found shot to death near Redmond Park in Cedar Rapids in the early morning hours of June 16, 2008. Investigators found his body, lying face down on the ground, between two parked cars in the 200 block of 16th Street SE. Young had been shot once in the head.

Young’s murder took place during the height of the 2008 flood, and subsequently did not receive a lot of press.

In a June 16, 2008 Cedar Rapids Gazette article, former Mayor Kay Halloran admitted Cedar Rapids leaders did not give Young’s death enough attention. At the time, much of the city was underwater.

“It’s really unfair to the family it didn’t get the public support,” Cedar Rapids police Sgt. Cristy Hamblin told the Gazette.

Young’s sister Kimberly Street told the Gazette that growing up, Aubrey was always the family’s protector. “He was the big brother,” Street said.

Street said the last time she saw her brother was right after she gave birth to her twin daughters.

Courtesy photo David Scrivner/The Gazette

Friends and family of Aubrey Young gather on the corner of 16th Street and Third Avenue SE to say a prayer for him on the third anniversary of Young’s unsolved murder.

“The last thing he said to me was ‘bye twins, bye sis, I’ll see y’all in the morning,” Street told the Gazette.

Young’s 13-year-old son, D’Andre, had wanted to share a story with news media on June 15, 2011, but was overcome by emotion.

Hamblin told the Gazette police still don’t have all the pieces in the homicide’s puzzle, including an eyewitness.

The case remains open and they encourage anyone with any information to come forward.

If you have any information about the unsolved murder of Aubrey Young, please contact Cedar Rapids police at 319-286-5478 or leave an anonymous tip at Crime Stoppers at 1-800-CR-CRIME.

KCRG-TV Channel 9 reports on the third anniversary of Young’s unsolved murder

Sources:

• Kimberly Frazier
• “Unsolved homicide has family, police looking for answers 3 years later,” The Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 16, 2011
• “Unsolved homicide has family, police asking for answers three years later,” KCRG-TV Channel 9, June 15, 2011
• “Cedar Rapids Man Found Dead of Gunshot Wound,” KCRG TV-9, June 15, 2008

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