A shooting at a Nebraska mall left one dead and one injured, the second shooting at the mall in just over a month.
At noon, the Omaha Police Department received calls of a shooting, which was not an active shooter situation, according to a press release from the department. Police said two victims were reported: one man in serious condition was taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy, and one woman with a gunshot wound that she said she sustained during the incident at Westroads walked into Immanuel Hospital with non-life-threatening injures. The man succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, police added.
The preliminary investigation indicated the shooting was an isolated incident rather than a random attack, and the suspects fled immediately after the shooting. The identities of the victims will be released at a later time pending notification of the next of kin, and the investigation is in progress, authorities added.
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The reported incident follows a shooting that occurred at the same mall last month. Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck, a four-year veteran of the Omaha police, was attempting to arrest a shoplifting suspect when he was shot in the face and the top of his head during an altercation with the suspect.
In a statement, the department said Kenya Lamont Jenkins Jr., the suspect, was “not forthcoming or cooperative,” and after a brief struggle, Wittstruck attempted to use a Taser on Jenkins, but the probes were “ineffective.”
Several mass shootings have occurred throughout the United States in recent weeks. On Friday, a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, left eight dead, and a gunman killed 10 after opening fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
The shootings have caused the White House to renew calls for gun control, with President Joe Biden issuing executive actions to clamp down on unregistered “ghost guns” and stabilizing braces that make handguns deadlier.
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“Gun violence is an epidemic in America,” Biden said in the wake of the FedEx shooting. “But we should not accept it. We must act.”
Representatives for the Omaha Police Department and the Westroads Mall did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
