A Polk County jury found 44-year-old Shaun Paul Runyon guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder, nearly five years after he beat and stabbed three coworkers to death inside a short-term rental house in Davenport. The trial opened on August 31, and sentencing now remains pending, with prosecutors having sought the death penalty when charges were first filed.
The verdict was announced by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office
on Thursday, closing out a case that began on October 2, 2021, when Runyon killed supervisor Kevin Lanusse, 41, of Effort, Pennsylvania; Dewlon Donell, 46, of Baltimore, Maryland; and Gregory Dolezal, 44, of Ohio, according to the…