Des Moines police have identified the officer and the man he shot and killed during a welfare check that led officers to discover a homicide victim inside an apartment.
Senior police officer Noah DeVenney, who has been with the department since 2024, fired the shots that killed 33-year-old Zakar Jeffrey, according to a Monday, March 30 update from Des Moines police spokesperson Sgt. Paul Parizek. DeVenney remains on administrative assignment, which Parizek said is standard protocol for employees involved in a “significant critical or traumatic on-duty incident.”
Officers were called just before 8 p.m. March 24 to the Flats on 5th apartment complex in the 7100 block of Southeast Fifth Street for a welfare check after a father reported he could not reach his adult daughter and believed she “may have been having problems with a boyfriend.”…