Dan Crisler

1 week 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.

1 week ago | journalstar.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.

1 week ago | nonpareilonline.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.

2 weeks ago | rapidcityjournal.com | Dan Crisler

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has hired a former Omaha SWAT officer, who was terminated after he shot an unarmed 37-year-old man while executing a no-knock search warrant last summer, to work as a civilian courthouse employee. Adam Vail is currently working as a building security officer and then, starting next week, will be an entrance screening officer at the Douglas County Courthouse in downtown Omaha, Sheriff Aaron Hanson said.

2 weeks ago | journalstar.com | Dan Crisler

A former Nebraska Medicine surgeon will serve anywhere from 10 to 14 years in prison after a jury convicted him of causing a high-speed car crash that killed a 22-year-old South Dakota woman in midtown Omaha in September 2023. Mark Carlson will be eligible for parole after serving five years of his prison sentence, Douglas County District Court Judge Duane Dougherty said Thursday. If Carlson does not get paroled, he is scheduled to be mandatorily discharged after serving seven years.