CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The trial for the Cedar Rapids man charged with murder in the 2018 stabbing death of a Walker man starts Tuesday.
Jury selection began in the Linn County Courthouse Tuesday morning. Andrew Shaw pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in 2023. Online court documents say he hired two men to stab and kill Chris Bagley in response to alleged robberies he carried out against Shaw, a convicted drug trafficker.
Shaw is accused of hiring Drew Wagner and Johnny Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, to commit the murder with payment being given in exchange…