Des Moines police have released the names but few details about two men found dead Monday in a home on the southwest side of the Capitol City.Sergeant Bruce Elrod is a spokesman for Des Moines cops says Forty-year-old Jeffery Johnson lived in the house where he and 38-year-old Steven Jenkins were found dead. Elrod says the men had been dead 24 hours or more.Both men died of gunshot wounds. Elrod says both of the dead men had police records. One had been linked to drug activity.Cops haven’t established a motive yet. Elrod says it wasn’t a random crime, though, so neighbors don’t need to worry something else might happen.It appears one of the men was the target of the killer.The two men did work together as carpenters, but Elrod doesn’t believe they worked for any particular company. Elrod says cops did not find a weapon in the house.
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