THE DARK SIDE OF IOWA
Keisha Magee
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photo courtesy North Iowa Today
Full Name: Keisha Lashea Magee
DOB: December 20, 1973
Charge: 2nd degree murder
County: Black Hawk
City: Waterloo
Current Status: Iowa Correctional Institution for Women
Date of Crime: September 29, 2013
Tentative Discharge Date: February 26, 2057
Victim: John Ladell Bass
DOB: December 20, 1973
Charge: 2nd degree murder
County: Black Hawk
City: Waterloo
Current Status: Iowa Correctional Institution for Women
Date of Crime: September 29, 2013
Tentative Discharge Date: February 26, 2057
Victim: John Ladell Bass
On September 29, 2013, at approximately 4:03 AM, Waterloo Police were dispatched to 1266 West Mullan Avenue on report of a stabbing. Officers found that John Ladell Bass, age 29, had been stabbed one time in the chest. He died later that day. Police charged Keisha Leshea Magee, 39, with murder in the first for stabbing John in the chest.
John Bass, courtesy WCF Courier
According to witnesses, Keisha came to 1266 West Mullan Avenue and asked if John was there. After being told John was not there, Keisha asked to use the bathroom and went into the house. John and Keisha had contact inside the house and Keisha went into the kitchen, got a knife, and stabbed John once in the chest.
Keisha pleaded guilty to second-degree murder as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
Source: North Iowa Today
