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WEBVTT REPORTER: DAVID AND MELISSA,AFTER THOSE INITIAL SHOTS,OFFICERS GOT OUT LATER USING A ROBOT TO REENTERTHE HOME, ULTIMATELY DISCOVERINGTHE SUSPECT WAS DEAD.>> I HEARD TWO GUNSHOTS FROMINSIDE THE HOUSE.REPORTER: NEIGHBORS SEEK SHELTERAFTER BULLETS FLY IN THIS HOMENEAR 34TH AND GRAND AVENUEMONDAY MORNING.POLICE CALLED TO THE HOME TOSERVE A FIREARMS WARRANT AROUND7:00.BUT AS THEY WALKED DOWN THESTAIRS TO THE BASEMENT, POLICESAY A MAN INSIDE OPENED FIRE.NEIGHBOR ROY LEVY WOKE UP TO THECOMMOTION.>> POLICE JUST RETREATED AND GOTOUT AND CLEARED OUT US ACROSSTHE STREET FOR OUR SAFETY AND ITWAS WHAT IT WAS.REPORTER: OFFICERS TOLD LEVY,AND OTHER NEIGHBORS TO EVACUATE.7 PEOPLE INSIDE THE HOUSE WEREALSO ORDERED OUT.FOR NEARLY 4 HOURS, NEGOTIATORSTRIED TO GET THE MAN TO COME OUTPEACEFULLY.>> WE ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO PUTIN A THROW PHONE TO MAKE CONTACTWITH THE INDIVIDUAL, WE USEDFLASH BANGS TO TRY TO GET HISATTENTION, WE USED THE BULL HORNSEVERAL TIMEREPORTER: AUTHORITIES SENT IN AROBOT EVENTUALLY FINDING THE MANDEAD.>> WE KNEW HE WAS DECEASED WHENWE ACTUALLY MADE CONTACT WITHHIM BUT WE WERE ABLE TO GET AVISUAL AND WE WANTED TO SEE IFTHERE WAS ANY MOVEMENT AND WEWERE NOT SEEING ANY.REPORTER: NEIGHBORS SAY THESHOOTING IS UNNVERVING.IT'S A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD FORTHE MOST PART, BUT THAT GUYALWAYS HAD A LOT OF TRAFFIC INAND OUT. POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATINGHOW THE MAN DIED. THEY SAY NO SHOTS WERE FIRED BY

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A police standoff on Monday ended when a suspect barricaded in a house was found dead, Omaha Police said. "I heard two gunshots from inside the house,” neighbor Roy Levy said. Neighbors sought shelter after bullets flew Monday morning in a home near 34th Avenue and Grand Avenue. Police were called to the home around 7:00 a.m. to serve a firearms warrant. As they walked down the stairs to the basement, police said a man inside opened fire. "Anywhere from 10 to maybe 12 shots were fired from inside the house,” Deputy Chief Elizabeth Davis said. Neighbor Roy Levy woke up to the commotion. “Police just retreated and got out and cleared us out across the street for our safety and it was what it was,” Levy said. Officers told Levy and other neighbors to evacuate. Seven people inside the house were also ordered out. Negotiators tried for nearly four hours to get the man to come out peacefully. “We actually were able to put in a throw phone to make contact with the individual. We used flash bangs to try to get his attention. We used the bull horn several times. We were getting no response from the suspect,” Davis said. Authorities sent in a robot and eventually found the man dead. “We knew he was deceased when we actually made contact with him (initially) but we were able to get a visual,” Davis said. Neighbors say the shooting is unnerving. “It's a quiet neighborhood for the most part, but that guy always had a lot of traffic in and out,” Levy said. Police are still investigating how the man died but said no shots were fired by officers.