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WEBVTT WHEN HE GOT UP, HE ADMITTED HISGUILT TO BOTH COUNTS OF FIRSTDEGREE MURDER.A SILENT COURTROOM LISTENED, ASSCOTT GREENE EXPLAINED WHAT HEDID ON NOVEMBER >> I TOOK A RIFLE AND I SHOT ANURBANDALE POLICE OFFICER AT THCORNER OF 70TH AND AURORA, ABEST AURORA.>> AND YOU AGREE THAT OFFICERDIED AS A RESULT OF YOU SHOOTINGHIM.-- YES.>> AND YOU AGREE YOU ACTED WITHMALICE AND FORETHOUGHT.>> YEAH, I DID.TOMMIE: GOING ON TO DESCRIBE THESECOND SLAYING.>> SIMILAR TO THE I WAS DRIVINGFIRST.DOWN MERLE HAY ROAD.I TURNED RIGHT NEXT TO THEOFFICER AND I TOOK THE SAME, RIFLE AND I KILLED HIM. TOMMIE: AND AFTER HIS ADMISSIONOF GUILT, GREENE REQUESTED TOWAVE THE 15 DAY WAIT PERIOD ANDGO STRAIGHT INTO HIS SENTENCINGHEARING.THE FAMILY OF BOTH OFFICERS, INTEARS, READY TO TELL GREENE THEPAIN HE INFLICTED ON SO MANYPEOPLE>> WE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU, MR.GREENE, AS WELL AS THE WORLD TOUNDERSTAND THE PERSON YOU TOOKFROM US THAT DAY, BUT ALSO NOTONLY YOU TOOK FROM US AS AFAMILY, BUT THE COMMUNITY OFURBANDALE. TOMMIE: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THEBEMINIO FAMILY SPOKE ON THEIRBEHALF, SHARING THE SAMESENTIMENT.>> THAT DAY WILL LIVE WITH MEFOREVER AS I CAN SAY I HAVENEVER FELT SO MUCH GRIEF, MUCH SADNESS, OR CRIED SO MANYTEARS. IT WILL GIVE ME SOME COMFORT TOKNOW YOU ARE WHERE YOU BELONGWHERE YOU PUT YOURSELF AND WILL, NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TOSENSELESSLY TAKE ANOTHER LIFE,AND RUIN THE HOPES AND DREAMS OFANOTHER FAMILY. TOMMIE: AFTER THE REMARKS AND NOOTHER WORD FROM GREENE, JUDGEROMANO REACHED HER RULING.>> WHAT YOU DID BROUGHT HOME THEWORST NIGHTMARE TO EACH OF THOSEFAMILIES AND FOR EVERY FAMILY A SWORN PEACE OFFICER, THAT ISTHAT THEIR LOVED ONE WILL NOTCOME HOME. TOMMIE: GREENE, GUILTY OFFIRST-DEGREE MURDER ON BOTHCOUNTS, IMPRISONMENT NOT TOEXCEED TWO LIFE SENTENCES,CONSECUTIVEL>> AS A FAMILY, WE DO NOT JUDGEYOUR ACTIONS, SIR.FOR WE KNOW THAT'S NOT OURPLACE.GOD WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE.

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The man accused of killing two metro police officers in ambush-style attacks pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in court Friday. For the first time, Scott Greene admitted to murdering Urbandale Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Sgt. Anthony Beminio. Greene walked into the courtroom Friday, for what was believed to be a routine status hearing, but things quickly turned when he changed his plea to guilty. Greene stood before Judge Karen Romano and described what happened November 2 "I took a rifle and I shot an Urbandale police officer at the corner of 70th and Aurora,” Green told Romano. When Romano asked if Greene knew that Martin died as a result of the shooting, he said yes. Greene also admitted to active with malice. Greene then went on to detail the shooting of Beminio. "Very similar to the first, um, I was driving down Merle Hay Road I turned right next to the officer, and I took the same rifle and I killed him,” Greene said. Following the status hearing, Greene requested to waive the 15-day wait period and go straight to his sentencing hearing. “Mr. Greene is competent for the purposes of making this decision,” said Matthew Sheeley, Greene’s attorney. Greene, before the brothers in blue and their loved ones, asserted that he killed Beminio and Martin, confirming that he acted willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly and with the specific intent to kill both officers. It took less than an hour for Romano to reach her ruling. "It is clear this was a horrendous and evil act that was committed (and) that has clearly devastated the families of these victims and, quite frankly, it's also devastated your family and your children,” Romano said. POLICE REACTION Urbandale Police Chief Ross McCarty and Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert responded to the guilty plea Friday at a news conference. ATTORNEY RECOUNTS NIGHT OF SHOOTINGS Polk County Attorney John Sarcone detailed exactly what happened the night of the killings. NOVEMBER SHOOTINGS The shootings took place about two miles apart within minutes of each other as both officers were sitting in their patrol cars. Authorities have said that Greene turned himself in hours later, and that a police dog later recovered a high-powered rifle used in the attacks.