DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines man is dead after a shooting on the city's east side Thursday night.
Witnesses tell police it happened near the intersection of E 14th and Walker Street Thursday night. Police arrived at the scene before 7:30 p.m. to find a 29-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the leg. She was treated for her injury and released. Police later learned a second victim, 21-year-old Alston Troy Edwards, was taken to the hospital by a private vehicle.
Edwards was shot in the chest and died at the hospital, according to police.
The names of the second victim has not been released.
At 7:32 p.m., officers arrested a man matching the description provided by witnesses. Police identified him as 27-year-old Wesley Bekish. He was found inside a business in the 1400 block of Des Moines Street with a gun.
Bekish is charged with first-degree murder, intimidation with a dangerous weapon and felon in possession of a firearm.
Police say this is the 20th homicide in Des Moines of 2020.
