18-year-old man charged in shooting death of Cambridge woman

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) - Deputies in Warren County have charged an 18-year-old man in the shooting death of a Cambridge woman.

Des Moines television station KCCI reports that Jacquarious Scoggins, of Des Moines, was originally taken into custody earlier this month as a material witness in the death of 25-year-old Mercedes Wathen. The Warren County Attorney’s Office said in a news release Saturday that Scoggins was arrested Friday and has been charged with first-degree murder in Wathen’s death.

Officers and medics were called to a home just south of Des Moines on April 2, where they found Wathen’s body.

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Information from: KCCI-TV, http://www.kcci.com