Police have identified the two officers shot and killed as Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin.

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WEBVTT HEARTS. >> Reporter: DES MOINES POLICE OFFICERS SAY SERGEANT BEMINIO WAS DEDICATED TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN AND A SOLID PERFORMING ON THE FORCE. OFFICER JUSTIN MARTIN A YOUNG MAN WITH A BRIGHT FUTURE WHO JUST BEEN APPROVED TO PATROL ON HIS OWN TWO MONTHS AGO. WE KNOW SERGEANT BEMINIO WAS JUST PROMOTED. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER AT SEVERAL HIGH SCHOOLS AND AS ROBBERY HOMICIDE DETECTIVE. >> IT'S A GREAT GUY IN THIS DEPARTMENT, GOOD FRIEND OF A LOT OF US, A FANTASTIC FAMILY MAN, JUST REALLY HARD TO LOSE TONY. >> Reporter: OFFICER MARTIN IS FROM ROCKWELL CITY IOWA. THE URBANDALE POLICE CHIEF CALLING IT A TRAGEDY THAT MARTIN'S FUTURE WAS CUT SHORT. >> WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HIRE A VERY GOOD YOUNG MAN. WE HIRED HIM AUGUST 10th OF 2015. HE STARTED HIS ACADEMY SHORTLY AFTER, GRADUATING LAST DECEMBER FROM THE ACADEMY. >> Reporter: BOTH MEN ARE ALUMNI OF SIMPSON COLLEGE SOUTH OF DES MOINES. THE COLLEGE PRESIDENT RELEASING THIS STATEMENT TODAY, SAYING, THIS IS ALMOST TOO MUCH TO BEAR. WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILIES OF ANTHONY AND JUSTIN. WE CONSIDER THEM PART OF OUR FAMILY, TOO. DAVID, MELISSA, BACK TO YOU. >> THANK YOU. WE'RE WORKING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SUSPECT TONIGHT. WE KNOW SCOTT GREENE HAD A BEEF WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO. NOT FAR FROM THE SCENE OF TODAY'S FIRST SHOOTING. GREENE DREW COMPLAINTS FOR WAVING A CONFEDERATE FLAG AT A FOOTBALL GAME. POLICE ARRIVED WHEN ONE PERSON TOOK THE FLAG FROM HIM. THIS IS A PHOTO GREENE POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ON OCTOBER 14th. AND HERE IS ANOTHER YOUTUBE VIDEO CONFIRMED TO BE POSTED BY GREENE. THIS IS HIM AS POLICE ESCORT HIM OFF URBANDALE SCHOOL GROUNDS. GREENE'S DAUGHTER ATTENDS THE SCHOOL. WE'RE TOLD THE FALLEN OFFICERS ARE NOT IN THIS VIDEO, BUT LISTEN TO THE INTERACTION. >> I THINK I'VE BEEN ASSAULTED BY YOU. >> NO, YOU GRABBED ME. >> I ESCORTED YOU OUTSIDE THE STADIUM, SIR. >> YOU GRABBED ME. >> I ESCORTED YOU OUT OF THE STADIUM, SIR. >> 9:00 A.M. GREENE GAVE HIMSELF UP ALONG THIS ROAD ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF DES MOINES. HE WAS SUFFERING SEIZURES AND FLAGGED DOWN A DNR EMPLOYEE SAYING CALL 911. GREENE WAS NOT ARMED AND HIS TRUCK WAS IN A RAVINE. THE GUNMAN FIRED AS MANY AS 30 SHOTS AT THE FIRST OFFICER. THE SECOND CAME 20 MINUTES LATER. POLICE SAY EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE LED THEM TO NAMING GREENE AS THE SUSPECT. THERE IS NO DISCUSSION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ABOUT A POSSIBLE MOTIVE IN THE ATTACK. INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY HAVE INTERACTED WITH GREENE BEFORE. POLICE ARRESTED HIM TWICE IN THE SPAN OF TWO DAYS BACK IN 2014. ONCE WHEN OFFICERS TRIED TO SEARCH FOR WEAPONS AFTER NOTICING THE HOLSTER AND THEN FOR THREATENING TO KILL A MAN AT AN APARTMENT BUILDING.

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Police have identified two Iowa officers shot and killed overnight as Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin. Sgt. Beminio, 38, had been with the Des Moines Police Department since 2005. Officer Martin, 24, joined the Urbandale Police Department in 2015. Scott Michael Greene, 46, is in custody in connection with the shootings. Police say Greene flagged down the officer Wednesday morning in rural Dallas County, west of Des Moines, and presented his identification. He was taken into custody and is being treated at a Des Moines hospital. The shootings took place minutes apart, and just blocks apart, starting at 1:06 a.m. when Officer Martin was shot and killed near the city’s high school. The second shooting happened blocks away at. A responding Des Moines police officer was shot there. He was transported to Methodist Hospital, where he died a short time later. Des Moines police said the shootings appear to have been ambush-style attacks. Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said both officers appear to have been shot while sitting in their cars. “It doesn’t look like there was any interaction between these officers and whoever the coward is who shot them while they sat in their cars,” said Parizek. Urbandale Police Sgt. Chad Underwood indicated that this is the first deadly Urbandale police shooting he is aware of. He said the Urbandale department employs about 50 officers. Friends and fellow officers remember men tragically killed Des Moines Police remembered Sgt. Anthony Beminio Wednesday, saying he was dedicated to his wife and children and a solid performer on the force. Sgt. Paul Parizek with the Des Moines Police Department said he worked with Sgt. Beminio on midnight patrol for several years. Sgt. Beminio also served as a School Resource Officer at several Des Moines area high schools and as a detective on the robbery homicide unit before recently being promoted. "He was a great guy in this department, good friend to a lot of us, fantastic family man. It’s just really hard to lose Tony," Sgt. Parizek said. Urbandale Police Chief Ross McCarty said Officer Justin Martin was born in Rockwell City, Iowa. Officer Martin had just begun his career in law enforcement, approved to patrol on his own two months ago. Chief McCarty called it a tragedy that Martin’s bright future was cut short. "We were fortunate enough to hire a very good young man. We hired him August 10th of 2015. He started his academy shortly after then, graduating last December from the academy," Chief McCarty said. Both Sgt. Beminio and Officer Martin graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. “The loss of any police officer in such a senseless act of violence is a tragedy,” Simpson President Jay Simmons said. “This is almost too much to bear. We all extend our deepest sympathy to the families of Anthony and Justin. We consider them part of our family, too.”