It’s standard procedure for cops to stop and help a stranded driver on the highway. When Iowa troopers rolled up on 23-year-old Jihad Gasaway, he “advised that his vehicle had stalled and needed a jump start.” Interesting things quickly caught the cops’ attention. They overlooked the potential alias of a name to focus on a more important issue. Gasaway was quick to disclose that he had “a Taurus 9 mm pistol in his pocket.” That led to a closer inspection of his Malibu and they soon discovered “a bullet-riddled body stashed under a pile of clothes in his passenger seat.”
Driver needs a jump
Nobody is commenting on the name the driver gave police, so it must match his license. Apparently, his parents had some sort of Muslim Brotherhood style sense of humor when they named Jihad Gasaway.
Iowa troopers encounter stranded motorists on a daily basis. One needing a jump is a touch unusual to see along the interstate because that particular problem tends to happen in the driveway.
The unlucky driver had plenty of gas to get away but he stalled. The Iowa resident now faces “charges of murder and abuse of a corpse.”
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"Jihad Abdul Malik Gasaway, 23, was caught with 23-year-old Kemp Xavier Sherrod Harriel's body slumped over his passenger seat after Iowa state troopers said they saw his stalled car and pulled over."https://t.co/ehMOYrb9cr
— Dan Lyman (@realdanlyman) October 6, 2023
Troopers spotted the Chevrolet Malibu on the shoulder of Interstate 80 in Poweshiek County, just after 8 a.m., October 3. They didn’t notice Jihad’s passenger, 26-year-old Kemp Harriel, because he was dead.
After the driver told them he needed a jump, and that he had a weapon, they disarmed him. Then, they searched the car.
“Harriel’s body was concealed underneath clothing items and appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds.”
A new record denial
Down at the station, the troopers have a collection of the lame excuses they hear from suspects they catch practically in the act. The story this driver gave beats them all.
The Medical Examiner confirmed that “Harriel died from two gunshot wounds to the chest fired from the Taurus pistol.” That makes it murder.
After they got the deadly driver in the interrogation room, he admitted that he and “Harriel ‘got into it‘ while traveling together from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines.”
Man Faces First-Degree Murder Charge Following Discovery of Body in Stalled Vehicle on Interstate 80 #NewsBreak
Jihad Abdul-Malik Gasaway, 23, of Cedar Rapids, was charged following the gruesome discovery of a body in a stalled car on Interstate 80. https://t.co/X43thknCqt
— nik t. hatziefstathiou (@nikthehat) October 5, 2023
After his Jihad-style temper tantrum, Gasaway “covered Harriel because he ‘thought he was very cold‘ — and ‘didn’t know [he] was gone‘ until he ‘watched the police eyes and read his lips,‘ the affidavit” states.
You have to give Gasaway credit for creativity to try using that as a chance to get out of a murder rap.
“That’s when I started crying in the car.” He’s being held on a $50,000 bond. They promise to bring him out to see a judge on October 12. He’ll have his own driver from now on. When they let him out for trial.
