It is not known if any of the Urbandale officers in the video with Greene is the one Urbandale officer killed in Wednesday morning’s ambush shooting. The second officer killed was a Des Moines officer.
Greene also posted a photograph of himself on his YouTube channel on Oct. 14, 2016 of him holding a confederate flag at a football stadium.
The Des Moines Register reports court records indicate the same Scott Greene had previous encounters with Urbandale police officers.
According to the Des Moines Register report, Greene pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for an April 2014 incident where Greene resisted a pat down when officers stopped him after noticing that he had a pouch on his belt resembling a holster.
The newspaper reports two days after that incident, a complaint was filed against Greene for threatening to kill a man in the apartment complex parking lot where he lived. He reportedly called the man the “N” word in the threat. Greene pleaded to a harassment charge and was put on probation and received a mental evaluation.
UPDATE @ 11:17 a.m.
Police have confirmed that the suspect, Scott Michael Greene, 46, of Urbandale, is in custody, according to The Associated Press.
Greene was taken into custody without incident Wednesday morning in Dallas County, west of Des Moines, the AP reports.
UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m.
There are reports that the suspect in the killings of two Iowa police officers is in custody.
The suspect, Scott Michael Greene, 46, of Urbandale, was wanted after the two officers were shot and killed in ambush style-attacks early Wednesday morning.
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INITIAL REPORT
Two police officers were shot and killed in ambush style-attacks Wednesday morning in Des Moines, Iowa, CBS affiliate KCCI-TV reports.
The two shootings occurred about 20 minutes apart, around 1:05 a.m. and 1:25 a.m. Central Standard Time, the station reports.
An officer from the Urbandale Police Department, a suburb of Des Moines, was killed in the first shooting. An officer from the Des Moines Police Department was killed in the second.
Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said in a news conference both officers appear to have been shot while sitting in their cars.
“It doesn’t look like there was any interaction between these officers and whoever the coward is who shot them while they sat in their cars,” he said.
Police said they are in the process of developing suspect information, KCCI-TV reports.
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