Thursday, January 6, 2011

Notes From Nebraska

As provided by the Boston Globe:

"Man killed after shooting 2 officers" by Associated Press  |  September 30, 2010

OMAHA — A 39-year-old man who led police on a high-speed car chase yesterday opened fire hours later at a hospital, grazing two police officers before they gunned him down, authorities said.

Police have not said why they think Jeffrey Layten, of Valley, was at the hospital, but hours earlier he had fled the crash scene after driving his pickup truck into a utility pole in Ralston following a high-speed police chase.

According to La Vista Police Chief Robert Lausten, a woman called at about 12:15 a.m. yesterday to report that Layten, her sister’s estranged husband, had attacked her sister in Tekamah and threatened to drive to kill her and her mother.

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Also see: Student fatally shoots administrator at Omaha high school, kills self, police say