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WEBVTT AND CHIEF WINGERT ALSO CALLED IT ONE OF THE DARKEST DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL IOWA. THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF WOR USED TO DESCRIBE THE AMBUSH ACKS >> IT WAS COWALY IN EVERY SENSE IN THE WOR FROM THE WAY IT WAS CARRIED T TO THE WAY IT ENDED. WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY WAS CALCULATED MURDER OF TWO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. KIM: BUT SOMETIMES THERE ARE NONE. INVESTIGATORS AREN'T SURE WHAT DROVE SCOTT GREE TO ALLEGEDLY GUN DOWN TWO METRO POLICE OFFICERS. >> HE'S CLEARLY ANGRY, ARE MANY PEOPLE IN TH BUILDING. KIM: TODAY, WE'RE LEARNING WHAT WEAPON THE SUSPECT MAY HAVE USED. >> WE HAD ONE OF OUR EXPLOSIVE DETECTIVES' DOGS THAT S AN ATF GIFT ESSSENTIALLY TO US TO SEARCH OUT EXPLOSIVE THAT DOG WAS ABLE TO TRACK THAT GUN DOWN IN A PLACE THAT NO PERSON WOULD HAVE PROBABLY FOUND IT. KIM: THE .223 CALIBER RIFLE WAS HIDDEN IN A WOODED AREA RURAL DALLAS COUNTY, NOT TOO R FROM WHERE GREENE WAS TAKEN INTO CUDY. POLICE DESCRIBING GREENE'S DEMEANOR AT THAT TIME AS "QUI" AND "OUT OF IT." WE MAY NEVER MAKE SENSE OF WHY THIS HAPPENED >> I WANTED FOR IT TO BE NOT SO SAD. >> JUST GONNA PUT A PIECE OF BLUE TAPE ON YOUR WINDOWND WE JUST ASK THAT YOU LEAVE IT ON UNTIL AFTER THE FUNERALS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR OFFICERS. KIM: SMALL GESTURES, HAVING A BIG IMPACT ON OFFICERS

Advertisement Suspect charged, placed in handcuffs belonging to fallen officers Des Moines police said two police officers were shot and killed early Wednesday, in what police describe as ambush-style attacks.

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SUSPECT CHARGED Des Moines police announced Thursday afternoon that Scott Michael Greene has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. According to police, the investigation has produced probable cause to support these charges. No additional information will be released at this time regarding the charges. Police said Greene will be transported to the Polk Co. Jail and released into their custody Thursday. Upon his arrest, Greene was secured in the handcuffs belonging to Sgt. Tony Beminio and Officer Justin Martin. Officials with the Polk County Jail said Green is being held there without bond. SUSPECT TRANSPORTED Police say 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene turned himself in to authorities on Wednesday, just hours after the killings. Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek says Greene remained in the hospital Thursday morning for treatment of an existing medical condition. He was moved from Mercy Medical Center to the Des Moines Police Station for questioning early Thursday afternoon. Greene has yet to be formally charged. Greene is suspected in the early-morning slayings of 38-year-old Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and 24-year-old Urbandale Police OfficerJustin Martin. Urbandale is a suburb of Des Moines. EMOTIONAL CHIEF Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert spoke passionately in a Thursday press conference about the death of one his officers and an Urbandale officer who were gunned down early Wednesday morning. “Yesterday was probably one of the darkest days in central Iowa in regards to law enforcement. The horrific events that took place are not typical for our communities. It’s not typical for central Iowa, and it’s not typical for Des Moines and Urbandale,” said Wingert. Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and 24-year-old Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin were killed in what police describe as ambush-style attacks. “Tony and Justin did not deserve this. The Des Moines Police Department, and the Urbandale Police Department did not deserve this. The communities that we protect and represent did not deserve this. Most importantly, there are two families that have been torn apart, and they certainly did not deserve this,” said an emotional Wingert. “What happened yesterday was calculated murder of two law enforcement officers. Plain and simple, that’s the reality. If someone wants to argue that reality with me, my office is two doors down." “I won’t try to reason or make sense of this. This was calculated murder,” said Wingert. It was cowardly in every sense of the word, in the way it was carried out and the way it ended. There were options here. When something like this happens, the suspect, the monster that does this, has options of how this is going to end, and there are only a few of them. And you can imagine what they are. He chose to run and hide. He could have graced the front door of the police station and turned himself in, and faced the facts and justice for what he had done. He could have done the same with the Urbandale Police Department. He chose to run and hide. This was a cowardly act of calculated murder, and unfortunately we all, as a community, as police departments, as families, are all left to deal with the aftermath.” WEAPON FOUND Police say a gun found by a search dog in a wooded area is believed to be weapon used in the fatal ambush shootings. Parizek said Thursday that the weapon was found a day earlier "where no person probably could have found it." He declined to provide further details. Police say the suspect, Scott Greene, turned himself in just hours after the two officers were shot in separate attacks early Wednesday. Parizek said Greene was expected to be released from the hospital on Thursday. He says investigations have yet to speak with Greene. Parizek said a motive remains unclear, but that investigators are looking at possible first-degree murder charges. No formal charges have been filed. MEMORIAL GROWS The community continues to mourn the loss of Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio. The two were gunned down while in their squad cars early Wednesday morning. People have been bringing flowers, notes, food, prayers, hugs and tears in Des Moines, and in Urbandale as well. It’s a scene that is becoming all too familiar when a police officer dies. SUMMARY Des Moines police said two police officers were shot and killed early Wednesday, in what police describe as ambush-style attacks. The first shooting happened at 1:06 a.m. at 70th & Aurora. An Urbandale police officer was shot and killed there. The second shooting happened blocks away at Merle Hay & Sheridan at 1:26 a.m. A responding Des Moines police officer was shot there. He was transported to Methodist Hospital, where he died a short time later. Urbandale police said Officer Justin Martin was killed in the first shooting. Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said Des Moines Sgt. Anthony "Tony" Beminio was killed in the second shooting. Sgt. Beminio, 39, has been with Des Moines police since 2005. Parizek indicated that Beminio has a wife and children at home. Urbandale police said Officer Martin, 24, has been with the force since 2015. Martin was single, with no children. SUSPECT CAPTURED Law enforcement officials have captured a suspect in a pair of ambush-style killings. Reports indicate the suspect was captured alive in Dallas County around 9 a.m. Wednesday. Scott Michael Greene was located two miles south of Redfield in Dallas County by the Dallas County Sheriffs Office and the Iowa State Patrol. Des Moines police said Greene was arrested without incident after flagging down state employee on a road and asking to call 911. Greene was transported to a hospital in Des Moines. Reports indicate Greene was suffering from seizures. Police said Greene was not armed when he was captured. Officials are searching for the weapon involved. A line of officials could be seen combing a field for evidence where Greene was captured. Greene was set to appear before a judge in Polk County Tuesday, but at last report he is still hospitalized. Urbandale police said Greene was known to them. Officers had escorted Greene from an Urbandale High School football game in October. He had been asked to leave the property after displaying a confederate flag inside the stadium. Iowa court records show Greene was jailed and charged with interference with official acts after resisting Urbandale police officers trying to pat him down for a weapon on April 10, 2014. A complaint signed by an Urbandale officer says Greene resisted verbal commands, was hostile and combative. It says he was known to be armed. He entered a guilty plea and was fined. Two days later, Urbandale police were called to answer a complaint of harassment at the apartment complex where Greene lived. The complaint says he threatened to kill another man during a confrontation in the parking lot. He was charged with harassment, pleaded guilty and received a suspended jail sentence and a year of probation. Records show he completed a court-ordered substance abuse and psychological evaluation. THE SHOOTINGS Des Moines police said two police officers were shot and killed overnight, in what police describe as ambush-style attacks. The first shooting happened at 1:06 a.m. at 70th & Aurora. An Urbandale police officer was shot and killed there. The second shooting happened blocks away at Merle Hay & Sheridan at 1:26 a.m. 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.