A judge sentenced 17-year-old Mahki Woolridge-Jones to 50-80 years in a Nebraska correctional facility on multiple counts, including second degree murder.
Alia Conley
Omaha World-Herald
A man critically wounded was taken to a hospital, where he died. A woman in her 20s suffered a gunshot wound to her leg that was not life-threatening.
A 16-year-old shot four times inside Westroads Mall after a verbal confrontation in April, at one point standing over a wounded 21-year-old man who later died, an Omaha police detective testified. Â
Makhi Woolridge-Jones, of Omaha, will stand trial on first-degree murder, first-degree assault and two firearms charges, a judge ruled Wednesday.Â
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Authorities have said the April 17 shooting, which caused panicked shoppers to flee, was gang-related.
Woolridge-Jones is accused of fatally shooting Trequez Swift and injuring 22-year-old Ja Keya Veland after a confrontation just before noon at the Auntie Anne s pretzel stand on the first floor of the mall.
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Omaha police have arrested two brothers in connection with Saturday s fatal shooting at the Westroads Mall.
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Makhi Woolridge-Jones, 16, and Brandon Woolridge-Jones, 18, both of Omaha, have been arrested in connection with the death of Trequez Swift, 21, Deputy Chief Ken Kanger said Sunday. The two are identified as brothers in a petition for a protection order filed by their mother in Douglas County Court.Â
The younger brother has been charged with first-degree murder in an arrest warrant. Brandon Woolridge-Jones, 18, was arrested on suspicion of being being an accessory to a felony. Reached by telephone Sunday, the mother of the two brothers declined to comment.
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On Monday morning, Texas police announced that they had arrested a former sheriff’s detective accused of shooting and killing three people on Sunday in Austin. Shooters across the country opened fire in the past few days, leaving at least 18 people dead and at least 17 wounded. The violence erupted in Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin.
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On Thursday evening, 19-year-old former FedEx Ground employee Brandon Scott Hole opened fire, killing nine people, including himself, and injuring seven others at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Ind. The shooter’s motive remains unclear, although an investigation of the shooter’s Facebook accounts revealed him to be a “brony,” a fan of