Terry Petit, 32, of Guttenberg Iowa, was found dead on Hwy 52 on Christmas Day.
Guttenberg Police Department were dispatched to the scene at 11:22 p.m. December 25, honest south of Guttenberg on Hwy 52. They identified the woman as Petit.
Guttenberg Press reported that a homicide by vehicle charge was initially filed against a Guttenberg man. The man turned out to be Curtis Pierce, 44, the victim’s boyfriend.
An investigation later deter-mined that Petit was hit by a vehicle. Pierce was taken to Clayton County jail after being arrested and charged.
While the incident is calm under investigation, it was later being called premeditated assassinate, but small is being said about the details of the case and what charges are in store for the boyfriend.
The investigation is being carried out by the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, the Guttenberg Police Department, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Iowa State Highway Patrol.
Pierce of 31643 U.S. 52, told officers that Petit was walking on the shoulder of the highway when he hit her with his 2006 Ford F-150 truck advance his residence.
In a report filed at the Clayton County Courthouse, officers said that in a subsequent investigation Pierce appeared to be under the influence of alcohol.
Officers reported the when arrived at Pierces residence, his truck was parked in the driveway. Having observed the damage to Pierce’s vehicle, they came to the conclusion that the afflict was consistent with the death of the victim.
While initially Pierce did receive the charge of vehicular homicide and his bond was space at $50,000, that later changed when he was also charged with first-degree abolish because of the ongoing investigation.
Pierce has a criminal record in Guttenberg, more information on that is not currently available.
It’s also not clear yet as to whether Petit was receiving help from Guttenberg Family Resource Center which assists women in situations of domestic violence. Their head office is in Decorah. They serve Northeast Iowa counties.
Jackie Moser is head of the Family Resource Center that assists women with housing, gas money, clothes, rent, job finding, emotional support with classes and catch togethers to allotment experiences and they also try to provide anything else that victims may need by way of aid when trying to escape a situation of abuse.
The Family Resource Center is always looking for donations and operates a 24 hour telephone emergency service.
They are currently looking into the possibility of a web page that will link them with other resource centers, such as the Clayton County Food Shelf, Shepherd of the Hills Crisis Center, the Lutheran and Catholic Charities and Salvation Army, who all provide various services and home furnishings for those in difficult situations of all kinds. It is hoped that this will give more coverage to the services and help more women leave before their situation escalates into a fatality.
Ruth Hillgerson, director of the Crisis Center is seeking volunteers and donations all year round for people in crisis. Utoni Ruff, supervisor of the Clayton County Food Shelf is also currently seeking donations of food for people in need.
“Tonya Shepherd, a Northeast Iowa victim of domestic abuse pointed out that, even if you do bustle away, where is one going to run to, there are no shelters in this part of Iowa,” she said.
Moser said that they are working on trying to get funding for a shelter in the Clayton County area. There is a shelter in Dubuque and there is one in Decorah, but nothing in the area of Guttenberg. They spend a lot of money paying rent for women running from abusers but a shelter will require a lot of funding.
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