Charges have been filed against a Clinton man for attempted murder in a case a couple of weeks ago where he jumped off the Highway 30 Bridge and later a woman was found injured at a Clinton home.
The incidents happened on April 5th.
The case involved incidents at two locations with separate emergency calls.
The first incident was a call about a man jumping off the Highway 30 Bridge. Clinton Police and Fire Crews arrived at the scene. The man had been pulled from the river by a boat operator and he was taken to the hospital for treatment.
A short time later the Police received a call about woman found bleeding in the back yard of 713 4th Avenue South.
Police said at the time the two people had a domestic relationship.
The investigation revealed that the woman – Angelo Sotero-Lopez received severe cuts and stab wounds to her upper chest and throat. Police say those injuries were inflicted by Edgar Gonzalez-Peralta, the man who jumped off the bridge.
The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department arrested Gonzalez-Peralta in Iowa City on a warrant for the Attempted Murder of Sotero-Lopez and took him into custody.
The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigations and the Division of Criminalists Laboratory assisted in the investigation.
