
Search underway for man accused of killing his pregnant wife while on parole for murder
CNN
A search is underway for a Minnesota man who was recently paroled for murder after he was charged with killing his pregnant wife and linked to another shooting.
A search is underway for a Minnesota man who was recently paroled for murder after he was charged with killing his pregnant wife and linked to another shooting. Mychel Stowers, 36, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the October 19 shooting that killed 35-year-old Damara Alexis Kirkland, who was about two months pregnant. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found Kirkland’s body crumpled on the floor. There were ultrasound photos in the apartment and a letter addressed to Stowers in the mailbox, according to the statement of probable cause filed Thursday. Stowers had been paroled from prison in March on a second-degree murder charge in the 2008 shooting death of a St. Paul man. He was on work release and living at a halfway house, but he had been granted a pass to visit a woman described in the probable cause statement as his ex-wife on the day of the shooting. Stowers filed for divorce in June, although it doesn’t appear it had been finalized, other court records show. The owner of the apartment said Kirkland’s estranged husband was living with her, which wasn’t allowed because he wasn’t on the lease. The owner said she was being evicted, the statement said.

US officials are furiously trying to avert a potential monthslong closure of the Strait of Hormuz, privately acknowledging that reopening the key waterway is a problem without a clear solution and dependent at least in part on what lengths President Donald Trump is willing to go to force the Iranian regime’s hand, multiple administration and intelligence officials tell CNN.












