Dan Crisler

2 weeks ago | journalstar.com | Dan Crisler

A 19-year-old man was killed and a 20-year-man was injured in a shooting in north-central Omaha early Sunday morning. Shortly after 2:30 a.m., police officers went to a neighborhood near 62nd Street and Camden Avenue. They found Ashtin Fletcher dead with a gunshot wound. Officers found a 20-year-old man nearby injured from a gunshot wound. Omaha Fire Department medics took the man to the Nebraska Medical Center. His injury is not believed to be life-threatening.

2 weeks ago | kearneyhub.com | Dan Crisler

The Nebraska State Patrol and Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles said text messages threatening legal action against drivers are part of a scam. The state agencies said the texts targeted numerous Nebraskans on Saturday. A press release from both agencies said the phishing scam involves a text message purportedly from the DMV claiming that the recipient has unpaid traffic fines and that several penalties are possible unless the recipient clicks a link to pay the supposed fines.

4 weeks ago | theindependent.com | Dan Crisler

A 34-year-old woman who’s waiting to be sentenced in connection to a fiery downtown Omaha crash that killed her three children and one other man has been charged with assaulting a fellow Douglas County jail inmate. Rachel Bickerstaff has been charged with assault by a confined person. The charge comes after Bickerstaff allegedly assaulted the woman on Thursday, according to court documents, in the jail. No further details about the incident were available.

4 weeks ago | kearneyhub.com | Dan Crisler

The 19-year-old man fatally shot by a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy in North Omaha last week appeared to have pointed a gun at the deputy, still photos from the deputy’s body camera released by the Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday allegedly depict. The Sheriff’s Office said the photos showed the man, identified by the Sheriff’s Office as Janidi Ibrahim, holding a semiautomatic handgun with an attached flashlight and pointing it at Sgt. Jesse Ronk.

4 weeks ago | yorknewstimes.com | Dan Crisler

The 19-year-old man fatally shot by a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy in North Omaha last week appeared to have pointed a gun at the deputy, still photos from the deputy’s body camera released by the Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday allegedly depict. The Sheriff’s Office said the photos showed the man, identified by the Sheriff’s Office as Janidi Ibrahim, holding a semiautomatic handgun with an attached flashlight and pointing it at Sgt. Jesse Ronk.