Mark Becker

Ed Thomas was a football coach in Parkersburg, Iowa who was shot in his high school's weight room. Police say the shooter was 24-year-old Mark Becker . Now Parkersburg is trying to deal with the loss of one of their local heroes. From an article at the AP: In the years after Mark Becker graduated from high school, friends say he drifted from the community where he played football for the town's beloved coach. There were failed attempts at college, minor dustups with the law and trouble with...Read Full Story

It's been nearly a year since Mark Becker walked into a high school weight room and shot down football coach Ed Thomas in front of 20 horrified students. Now Becker will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Mark Becker was handed down the mandatory life sentence in court Wednesday for first degree murder. He was found guilty in March after a jury rejected his insanity plea. At the time of the murder, Becker told police that Thomas was Satan and he killed him because the coach had been...Read Full Story

ARCHIVE:  Mark Becker, 24, has been identified as the person responsible for Parkersburg shooting, and killing Iowa High School football coach 58-year-old Ed Thomas. Mark Becker was a former student of Ed Thomas. The victim of the shooting, Ed Thomas was an athletic director of Aplington-Parkersburg High School. Reports say, Ed Thomas was shot several times by Mark Becker when he was in the school’s weight room. There were about 30 high school football players in the weight room at the...Read Full Story

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Ed Thomas and family received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in the 2010 ESPY Awards. But who is Ed Thomas?  Ed Thomas was the coach of Aplington-Parkersburg Football team in Iowa. He led the clean-up effort after a tornado hit the town of Parkersburg. Coach Thomas was shot and killed in June 2009. UNI and Ed Thomas at the ESPY's « Public Paul & Media Ed Thomas ' family was presented with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The piece ESPN ran was incredible. They...Read Full Story

Mark Becker :he ESPY Awards 2010, held on 14 July, Ed Thomas family received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, because they showed mercy and to forgive the family, Mark Becker. It was a great thing they have done for the family man who killed Thomas. It was a great honor that they have received, as previously, this award was presented to celebrities such as Nelson Mandela, Pat Tillman and Muhammad Ali. Former player Mark Becker Coach Ed Thomas was killed last year in the room of football...Read Full Story