A Keokuk County woman has been identified as the victim in a death investigation. According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, on April 7th the Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office received an emergency 911 call to 1242 Yale Avenue in Barnes City for a victim who had been struck by a motor vehicle. The victim was 24-year-old Courtney Christine Moore of What Cheer. Her ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old Trenton Dwayne Garber of Montezuma, was the person driving the vehicle that struck Moore.

An autopsy was performed by the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner in Ankeny and final results could take up to six weeks. It is an ongoing investigation being worked jointly by the Mahaska County Sheriff’s office, the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Iowa State Patrol.