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Update on Fatal Police Shooting in Fort Madison

Tri States Public Radio | By Rich Egger

Published December 12, 2019 at 10:40 AM CST

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The Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS) has released the name of the person shot and killed by a Fort Madison police officer late Tuesday night.

Robert Allen Elfgen, 42, of West Point was shot at Scotts, which is a local manufacturing company. He was pronounced dead at Fort Madison Community Hospital.

The DPS said police were called to Scotts on a report of a person armed with a gun. The DPS says Elfgen was shot while brandishing a firearm in the business.

The name of the officer involved in the shooting has not been released.

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Rich is the News Director at Tri States Public Radio. Rich grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago but now calls Macomb home. Rich has a B.A in Communication Studies with an Emphasis on Radio, TV, and Film from Northern Illinois University. Rich came to love radio in high school where he developed his “news nerdiness” as he calls it. Rich’s high school had a radio station called WFVH, which he worked at for a couple years. In college, Rich worked at campus station WKDI for three years, spinning tunes and serving at various times as General Manager, Music Director and Operations Manager. Before being hired as Tri States Public Radio’s news director in 1998, Rich worked professionally in news at WRMN-AM/WJKL-FM in Elgin and WJBC-AM in Bloomington. In Rich’s leisure time he loves music, books, cross-country skiing, rooting for the Cubs and Blackhawks, and baking sugar frosted chocolate bombs. His future plans include “getting some tacos.” [Copyright 2025 Tri States Public Radio]

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