Three Omaha police officers have been wounded and a suspect killed in an exchange of gunfire at a gas station. 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 on Wednesday.
He then left the room and began firing on the officers, the chief said.Two officers were hit, 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 injuries and were taken to a local hospital.
