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CEDAR RAPIDS — The question jurors will probably ask during the trial of Luke Wade Truesdell is how one man can kill four people, a prosecutor Wednesday told a Linn County jury during his opening statement.

“It’s simple — ambush,” Assistant Linn County Attorney Jordan Schier said. “Luke Truesdell brutally beat, bashed and destroyed the lives of Brent Brown, Keonna Ryan, Romandus Cooper and Amanda Parker. How? With a 3-foot black metal pipe.”

Schier said only one person committed this “horrible” bludgeoning.

Truesdell, 35, of Marion, is on trial this week for four charges of first-degree murder . He is accused of killing Brent Anthony Brown, 34, and his girlfriend, Keonna Victoria Ryan, 26,

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