The Iowa State Patrol trooper who shot and killed a Carroll man on April 29 was justified, according to a recently released review of the incident by the Webster County attorney’s office.

The attorney’s office concluded that Trooper Justin Parman “reasonably believed that the use of deadly force was necessary to defend himself or another from the imminent use of illegal unlawful force on himself or another.”

Parman killed Joshua Ewing, 26, after Ewing held a woman hostage at gunpoint on a rural Webster County road and later fired multiple rounds at Parman, according to the report.

Look for the full story in Saturday’s Messenger.