JUNE 11, 2017 (LINCOLN, NEB.)  — Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) troopers have arrested a man suspected of shooting at a vehicle traveling on Interstate 80 in Lincoln.

The incident occurred just after 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11, 2017. Troopers, assisted by Lincoln Police, responded to reports that the driver of a red Toyota Rav4 had displayed a handgun in the window and fired multiple shots at another vehicle while both were driving westbound on I-80.

Neither occupant of the victims’ car were injured, but the car was struck by at least one bullet. After arriving on the scene, troopers arrested Havacu Quintero, 48. Quintero was lodged in Lancaster County Jail on charges of Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm, False Reporting, and Possession of Forged Documents.

The Nebraska State Patrol Aerial Division assisted in the situation.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say three people were killed when two motorcycles collided at an intersection in the middle of Omaha.

Police say the crash happened around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, when a Suzuki motorcycle ran a red light and hit a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Police say two riders on the Harley — 34-year-old Adam Kammann, of La Vista, and 37-year-old Christine Zadina, of Omaha — and the Suzuki driver, 24-year-old Andrew Torrice of Omaha, all died.

Police say all three were wearing helmets.

Investigators say excessive speed by the Suzuki is considered a factor in the crash.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police are investigating a crash that killed a 40-year-old Omaha woman.

Police say the crash happed around 2:30 a.m. Sunday when a sport utility vehicle left an east Omaha roadway and hit a tree.

Police say the driver, Lakeisha Gamble, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say she was not wearing a seat belt.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s police chief is recommending the firing of two police officers involved in the death of a man who had been beaten and shocked a dozen times by a stun gun in an altercation with officers.

Chief Todd Schmaderer said in news conference Friday that he plans to fire two of four Omaha officers involved in the early Monday morning incident in which officers confronted 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels, of Murdo, South Dakota.

Police say Bearheels, who has a history of mental illness, was acting erratically and fought officers’ efforts to take him into custody. After being shocked with a stun gun, Bearheels was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Schmaderer said officers violated policy by dragging Bearheels by his hair, shocking him 12 times and hitting him, including times when Bearheels was not resisting.

WAYNE, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 24-year-old man has died after falling from a balcony of a downtown Wayne building.

The accident happened Thursday night. Wayne Police Chief Marlen Chinn says officers responded to a 9:45 p.m. call of a man injured in a fall.

Upon arriving, officers found Clay Block, of Wayne, unresponsive on the sidewalk on the south side of the building.

A witness reported that Block had fallen from a second-story egress balcony and landed on the concrete below.

Block was taken to a Wayne hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The investigation into Block’s death continues.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say a man raped a 22-year-old hostage he was holding inside a house south of downtown Omaha.

Police were called to the house around 7:15 p.m. Thursday for a report of a mentally ill man holding a woman hostage. Police say they were told the man suffers from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Police negotiators began trying to coax the 37-year-old man from the home. The victim was released around 11:15 p.m. Police say the man came out just after midnight, holding a knife. He soon followed commands to drop the knife and was arrested.

He was booked on suspicion of committing first-degree sexual assault, false imprisonment, assault and making terroristic threats. His case did not appear in online court records Saturday.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Police say a woman’s leg was nearly severed when she was hit by a vehicle as she walked across a busy section of West Dodge Road in Omaha.

Police say the 43-year-old woman strolled into traffic Friday night near 180th and Dodge after getting out of a pickup truck on the side of the road.

Witnesses told police it appeared the woman was trying to be hit. Several vehicles swerved around the woman before she was hit by an SUV.

The woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The driver of the SUV was not injured, but was ticketed on suspicion of drunken driving.

Police believe the woman was upset following an altercation with someone in the truck. Police say the truck left before officers arrived.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln residents are complaining about the plain design of several fire stations slated to be built over the next two years.

Ground was broken Friday for the first station in a cornfield near Northwest 48th and Adams streets. It will have a metal roof and metal, concrete and brick exterior.

The other new fire stations will feature a similar design and will be in growth areas at the edges of the city.

Homeowners near the Adams Street site have complained, saying the stations need to be better looking to fit into the neighborhood.

But Assistant Fire Chief Pat Borer says construction costs for the first station have doubled since plans were first made, and the city can’t afford to worry with aesthetics.

RED CLOUD, Neb. (AP) — A 26-year-old man has been accused of stealing cattle in southern Nebraska.

Court records say Austin Petr, of Blue Hill, is charged with theft in Webster County and, in Clay County, with seven counts of prohibited sale of livestock. His attorney didn’t immediately return a call Thursday from The Associated Press.

Authorities say calves belonging to Alan Johnson, of Blue Hill, were reported missing Jan. 13. Authorities say that on the same day Petr sold 40 of his cattle and 30 unbranded animals at a sale barn in the Clay County community of Sutton.

Authorities say a subsequent investigation revealed that 27 of the unbranded calves were matched with animals in Johnson’s herd.

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