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The suspect, a man in his 20s, had earlier shot a 61-year-old
man several times in the chest about noon at a grocery store,
Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said. Officers obtained a license
plate number from the scene and followed the suspect's car to
the gas station, he said.
The officers watched the suspect get out and enter a restroom.
After additional officers arrived, they ordered the man out of
the restroom and he came out firing, police said in a news
release. One officer was struck before the suspect retreated
back into the restroom.
A bystander who was in the restroom when the shooting began
managed to come out safely before officers again ordered the
suspect out and a second shootout occurred. That time a second
officer was shot and a third was hit by shrapnel. The officers
returned fire, and the suspect was killed.
“This is a very dangerous day involving this suspect in the city
of Omaha,” Schmaderer said.
The officers suffered non-life-threatening but serious injuries
and were taken to a local hospital, Omaha police said. The
officer hit by shrapnel was later released.
The man who was shot at the grocery store was in critical
condition.
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