C.R. Police: Marion Paintball Sniper Leaves Welts on Victim

A Marion man faces several criminal charges after he allegedly shot and hit at least one Cedar Rapids man while hidden within a black SUV on Wednesday night.

The Gazette reports that Cedar Rapids police searched the area where complaints were coming from and found Deryk Anthony Diggs, 24, in a nearby vehicle that happened to have a paintball gun in it.

Police received several reports Wednesday of a black SUV with a license plate partially covered with snow shooting paintballs at people. Officers were able to locate the vehicle around 9 p.m. in the 1400 block of First Avenue East. The driver, Deryk Diggs, 24, of Marion, told police he owned the paintball gun located in the vehicle, but did not admit to shooting anyone with paintballs, Sgt. Denni Randall said. The paintball gun was confiscated by authorities.

Diggs received several charges, the most serious was an assault with a weapon charge, and was taken to the Linn County Jail, the Gazette reported.

Diggs has a long arrest record in Linn and Johnson Counties. He also has an outstanding warrant in Johnson County, where among his offenses he took a plea deal for an alleged felony assault on multiple police officers a little over two years ago when he was accused of trying to hit them with a car (via KWWL)

When the driver was asked to step out of the car, police say Diggs jumped in the front seat and floored the vehicle.

Luckily for officers, Diggs was not able to get the car into gear.

Diggs was tasered and arrested.