Police have captured a 46-year-old man as a suspect in the “ambush-style” killing of two police officers early Wednesday in the Des Moines metro-area.
Urbandale Police spokesman Sgt. Chad Underwood said the suspect, who was identified as Scott Michael Greene, a white male, was captured hours after the back-to-back killings. He had been described as armed and dangerous and was last seen seen driving a blue Ford F-150 with an Iowa license plate.
Authorities said he surrendered to a Department of Natural Resources officer in adjoining Dallas County. There was no struggle. He was in the custody of the Iowa State Patrol Wednesday morning.
Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek tells CNN that Green was captured while walking alone “on foot,on a road.”
In the early morning killings, police departments from the adjoining cities had responded to reports of gunfire at the intersection of 70th Street and Aurora Avenue in Urbandale around 1:06 a.m. CT.
The first officers arriving on the scene found an Urbandale officer shot. The officer, whose name was not released, died, said Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek.
The second attack occurred at around 1:26 a.m. when a Des Moines officer responding to the initial attack was fatally shot near the intersection of Merle Hay Road and Sheridan Avenue.
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SOURCE: USA Today, Daniel P. Finney, Charly Haley and Doug Stanglin
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