“It’s hard to be so grateful that it wasn’t your family, when you know that another family, is just being ripped apart - multiple families,' she said. She said the campers got little information about what happened and she began piecing it together on the drive home. “He was in these super cute little pajamas, like a cotton T-shirt and shorts that matched. “He’s got this really cute, floppy-curly, moppy, strawberry-blond hair that’s really distinguishable,” Coe said. She later saw a picture of the Schmidt family online and said she recognized the boy she saw as Arlo. I distinctly remember he had one blue tennis shoe,” she said. But she recalls seeing a little boy standing near the paramedics. More law enforcement and an ambulance showed up as Coe went to find her boyfriend's teenage son.Īt the time, Coe did not know what happened. when two park rangers dressed in helmets, vests and carrying what looked like automatic rifles told them to leave the campground. She said the 16-year-old went out early to go running, and she was talking with someone at the park at about 6:30 a.m. La Vista Police Chief Bob Lausten told the newspaper that Sherwin lived in an apartment complex with his parents and had no history of criminal conduct.įelicia Coe, 35, of Des Moines, was at the campground Friday morning with her boyfriend and his two sons, ages 11 and 16. The Des Moines Register reported that Sherwin was from La Vista, Nebraska. Officials did not say if Sherwin had a permit and provided no information about the firearm used to kill the Schmidts. He said that during the course of the investigation, authorities learned Sherwin was armed and “that of course heightened our awareness.” Iowa allows people with permits to carry firearms virtually anywhere in the state. After the evacuations, Sherwin was the only person unaccounted for, Mortvedt said. The killings prompted the evacuation of the park and campground, including a children's summer camp. The page, organized by a cousin, Beth Shapiro, said: “Arlo is a strong boy, surrounded by family and friends who are supporting him as best we can.” The page says the fund will help Arlo now, and help fund his future education. “As far as I know, he was uninjured physically.”īy Saturday evening, more than $75,000 had flowed into a GoFundMe page created for Arlo. “He is with family and he is OK, but I have not had any interaction with him,” Morehouse said. Morehouse confirmed Arlo was on the family's camping trip, but said he did not know exactly where the boy was at the time of the shooting or know specifics about how it unfolded. Germany's Rhine River Could Reach Critically Low Point, Slowing IndustryĬedar Falls Mayor Rob Green, who said he is a neighbor of the Schmidts, posted on Facebook on Friday that the couple's 9-year-old son, Arlo, “survived the attack, and is safe.” The post did not say whether Arlo was in the tent or even at the campsite when the shootings happened, and the mayor told the AP he didn't have those details.

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