OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police have identified a man shot to death in eastern Omaha, as well as a suspected arrested in the case.

Police say officers sent around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday to the area for a report of a shooting found 39-year-old Aristeo Pena-Robles, of Omaha, on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound. Pena-Robles later died at a hospital.

Another man has been arrested in the shooting. Police say 34-year-old Shawn Stewart was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder and other counts.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Omaha man has been convicted of second-degree murder and weapons counts in the shooting death last year of another Omaha man.

The Omaha World-Herald reports (https://bit.ly/2vXTSwG ) that a Douglas County jury found 27-year-old Rolander Brown guilty on Tuesday in the May 2016 death of 40-year-old Carlos Alonzo.

Police say the killing happened at the home of 47-year-old Dolomo Curtis, who was dating both men.

Brown faces 25 years to life in prison when he’s sentenced in the fall.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Douglas County’s top prosecutor has scheduled a news conference to reveal his findings regarding Omaha police officers’ actions in the death last month of a mentally ill man who was shocked with a stun gun a dozen times.

County Attorney Don Kleine is expected to disclose Wednesday whether his office will file any charges against two former officers who confronted 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels on June 5 at an Omaha convenience store.

Scotty Payne and Ryan McClarty were fired earlier this month from the Omaha Police Department after Police Chief Todd Schmaderer recommended that action.

Officials say Bearheels died after being shocked 12 times with a Taser, punched and dragged by his hair by the officers.

BRAINARD, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man died after striking a parked car in eastern Nebraska.

The crash occurred a little before 5:00 a.m. Saturday. The Nebraska State Patrol says Donald Nichelson’s vehicle struck the car in Brainard, and he died later at a Butler County hospital.

Authorities say Nichelson lived in Dwight. They believe Nichelson had been drinking alcohol before the crash.

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha authorities are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 54-year-old man.

Terry Deperkins was found injured Sunday afternoon in a grassy lot in northeast Omaha. Police say he died later at Nebraska Medical Center.

Police have been looking for woman dressed all in pink who witnesses say was arguing with Deperkins before the stabbing. No arrests have been reported.

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $1 million for a Colorado man who was arrested in the 2012 death of his 13-year-old son.

Mark Redwine was arrested in Washington state and appeared in court Monday for the death of Dylan Redwine, whose remains were found about 10 miles from the father’s southwestern Colorado home in 2013.

The boy had traveled to be with his father for a court-ordered visit the previous Thanksgiving. Mark Redwine and the boy’s mother had gone through a contentious custody battle.

An indictment says blood found in Mark Redwine’s home matched Dylan’s DNA, and a cadaver dog picked up the scent of a body on the father’s clothes and in his truck.

Mark Redwine has denied any involvement.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reminding the public that some sandbars in the Missouri River between Nebraska and South Dakota are closed to recreational use to keep endangered bird species’ nests safe.

The Corps says endangered interior least terns and threatened piping plovers are currently nesting on sandbars around the Fort Randall Dam in South Dakota and Ponca State Park in Nebraska. The birds use the sandbars to lay their eggs and hatch chicks.

Corps Senior Program Manager Mark Harberg says closed sandbars are marked with signs warning the public to keep out of the area, but that some signs have been vandalized.

The nesting season runs from mid-May through August.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) — Two people in a Papillion home have escaped injury following a car crashing into the house.

The crash happened around 8:15 a.m. Saturday. Police say the car crashed through two fences and came to a stop inside the home at 45th and Raynor street.

Police say the driver of the car likely suffered a seizure, which caused him to lose control of the vehicle.

Two people were in the house at the time, but were upstairs and uninjured.

Police continue to investigate.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A fourth person has been arrested in the July 7 shooting death of an Omaha man.

Omaha police say 37-year-old Jason Rankin was arrested Friday in Iowa on unrelated charges and is being held on a Nebraska warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the death of 40-year-old Billy Allen Walker.

The arrest came two days after another man, 35-year-old Mark Gonzales, was arrested on warrant charging him with accessory to a felony in Walker’s death.

On July 13, a couple was arrested in Texas in the case. Twenty-nine-year-old Adrian Ixta is charged with first-degree murder and weapons counts and 26-year-old Milea Ixta is charged as an accessory.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha has been invited to apply for a $55 million federal loan to help pay for upgrades to its sewer and wastewater treatment system.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Omaha’s project was one of 12 nationwide chosen to apply for the loan.

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt says the loan program is designed to help pay for important infrastructure upgrades.

Omaha plans to build a new retention treatment basin to deal with sewer overflows in the Saddle Creek basin. The project would help improve the water quality of the Papillion Creek and Missouri River.