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Police ID Council Bluffs Officers in Shooting

council-bluffs-policeCOUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have identified two Council Bluffs police officers involved in a shooting earlier this week.

Department officials said Officers Jarrod Poore and Corey Woodward were involved in the shooting.

Police say that around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, officers spotted a stolen Corvette and that the driver accelerated toward them, so they opened fire before the car struck their cruiser. Neither officer was injured.

A chase ensued across the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska, and 33-year-old Jesse Wilkinson was soon arrested.

He was taken to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds.

Wilkinson is currently being held in an Omaha jail on an unrelated federal warrant charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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