An Iowa woman was fatally stabbed following an altercation with a white neighbor in Cedar Rapids after the man called her a racial slur.
According to reports, 29-year-old Devonna Walker died on Jan. 2 after she was called the N-word.
Cell phone video captured Walker arguing with a white neighbor in front of an apartment building. Walker, wearing a red shirt, appeared to be arguing with a white woman wearing a black sweatshirt as a man opened the front door of an apartment and said, “Please, just get inside.”
The woman in the black sweatshirt ignored the man and continued yelling at Walker as she held her dog on a leash on the front lawn.
“So you come back, you come back after me again? I’m gonna press charges again,” the other woman said.
After Walker responded to the woman with an inaudible remark, the woman yelled, “Then go around! Nobody wants you around here!”
The man then yelled at Walker, “Shut the f— up! Shut the f— up, you f—n n—!”
Walker then pushed the woman down in front of the doorway before a man standing in the doorway immediately appeared to stab Walker. After the stabbing, the woman accused Walker of faking her injuries with a mocking tone as her dog jumped up at Walker before she collapsed on the lawn.
“Oh, she’s playing stupid,” said the woman. “She’s playing stupid. Leave her alone. She acting like the dog attacked her.”
It wasn’t until several minutes later that bystanders realized Walker was bleeding and had been stabbed. After learning that the man stabbed Walker, a bystander cried, “Oh my God! This is all f— blood. Another bystander replied, “They stabbed her?”
Officers from the Cedar Rapids Police Department arrived on the scene at 6:44 p.m., approximately six minutes after Walker collapsed, to find her on the ground and suffering from a stab wound. They performed CPR before transporting her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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