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Man suspected in shooting of Omaha officer held on $10M bail
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Kenya Lamont Jenkins Jr. is accused of shooting an Omaha police officer.
Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck was shot four times, hitting the officer in the face and head. He remains hospitalized in stable condition.
OMAHA, Neb. (KTIV/AP) - A man arrested in the shooting of an Omaha police officer last week during a shoplifting investigation has been ordered held on $10 million bail.
Kenya Lamont Jenkins Jr. would have to post 10% of the bail, or $1 million, to be released from jail pending the outcome of the charges against him.
Wittstruck had been dispatched to the JC Penney at 3.27pm after Jenkins was detained by store security after he was allegedly caught stuffing a package of T-shirts into his backpack, cops said in a news release.
When cops arrived, Jenkins – who had allegedly given store security a fake name was sitting in a chair in the security office and was not cooperative with police.
Wittstruck ordered him to take off his backpack and Jenkins stood up and stuffed his right hand in his sweatshirt pocket.
Omaha officer shot four times
The cop, who has been with the Omaha Police Department since September 2016, then ordered Jenkins to show his hands
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