{"id":762759,"date":"2026-07-14T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762759\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:24:10","slug":"breaking-news-cedar-rapids-man-charged-with-murder-after-his-father-found-deceased-in-lone-tree-kcii-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/762759\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Cedar Rapids Man Charged with Murder After His Father Found Deceased in Lone Tree | KCII Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/break.webp.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"break\" wpb-att-id=\"364813\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One man has been arrested after a victim was found deceased in Lone Tree Monday evening. According to the Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, at 7:59 p.m. authorities conducted a welfare check at 217 West Elm Street in Lone Tree. They found a deceased male in the residence. Following an investigation, 52-year old Scott Christopher Powers of Cedar Rapids was arrested by the Cedar Rapids Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been charged with murder in the first degree.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as 76-year old Richard Powers of Lone Tree. Richard Powers is the father of Scott Powers.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Powers was transferred to the Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office and taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case remains under investigation. The Iowa City Police Department, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Cedar Rapids Police Department, and Johnson County Medical Examiner assisted with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>KCII News will provide more information as it becomes official. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man has been arrested after a victim was found deceased in Lone Tree Monday evening. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-762759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}