Iowa Mother and Son Charged After Violent Home Invasion
I can’t imagine what it must’ve felt like to be that elderly man, alone at home in Ankeny, when two people—one of them his neighbor’s adult son—broke in and nearly killed him.
It happened on July 1st, just off NW Ashland Parkway. Police say the man was beaten and strangled inside his own house. He was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries, and thankfully, he survived. But surviving something like that doesn’t mean it’s over. The fear? That lingers.
What really shook me when I read the full police report is this: the suspects weren’t strangers. They were family—literally. A 27-year-old man named Gemiere Goodwin and his 45-year-old mother, Merrelita Kintz, are now both behind bars. Police say they planned the whole thing together. That changes how you look at home invasions, doesn’t it?…