Owens - Rush’s girlfriend and mother of his 1-year-old child - and Valentine were at the club that night celebrating a birthday of a mutual friend, La’Tazia Mac.
Walker plans to claim self-defense or in defense of others at trial. One of Walker’s original charges, willful injury, was dismissed by the prosecution Monday because the victim he was accused of shooting and injuring - Shango Johnson - wouldn’t cooperate with authorities and the charge couldn’t be proven without his testimony, Assistant Linn County Attorney Rena Schulte said.
Walker is one of two men arrested in the April 10 shooting in the Taboo Nightclub & Lounge that killed Nicole Owens, 35, Michael Valentine, 25, and Marvin Cox, 31. 31 hearing hearing in the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids. Defense attorney Sarah Hradek (center) talks to her client Dimione Walker during an Oct.
