BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) An Iowa man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for fatally shooting a pregnant woman at a Bellevue home last year. Nicholas Holliday, 25, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced Tuesday in Sarpy County District Court after pleading no contest to manslaughter and second-degree assault of an unborn child, the Omaha World-Herald reported .
A Council Bluffs man who pleaded no contest to manslaughter and second-degree assault of an unborn child was sentenced to five to eight years in prison.
By Julia Bertino
May 31, 2021
(Bellevue, NE) A Council Bluffs man is being held in the Sarpy County Jail without bond, accused of shooting a woman to death over the weekend.
The Bellevue Police Department says just before 10:30 Sunday night, officers were called to a shooting in the area of the 6900 block of South 27th Street. Once on the scene, officers found 21 year old Madyson Dennis, of Omaha, suffering from a gunshot wound. Dennis was pronounced deceased at the scene by Bellevue Fire Department personnel.
Investigators identified the suspect as 25 year old, Nicholas Holliday of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Holliday was not on scene when officers arrived, but he was later located in the area of 27th and X Street in Omaha and was arrested. Holliday was booked into the Sarpy County Jail for Manslaughter, Use of a Weapon to Commit a Felony and Tampering with Physical Evidence.
Bellevue police identify woman killed in weekend shooting
June 1, 2021
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BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) Police in Bellevue have identified a woman killed in a shooting over the holiday weekend.
Police say the shooting happened around 10:20 p.m. Sunday at 27th and Emiline streets in Bellevue, where officers were called for a report of gunshots. Officers found Madyson Dennis, 21, of Omaha. with gunshot injuries, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police later arrested Nicholas Holliday, 25, on suspicion of manslaughter, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony and tampering with physical evidence. Police have not given a motive for the shooting or said what, if any, Holliday’s relationship is to Dennis.