× Thanks for reading! Log in to continue. Enjoy more articles by logging in or creating a free account. No credit card required. Log in Sign up {{featured_button_text}}

A 23-year-old man who punched an elderly woman in Omaha’s Catholic cathedral last year as another man snatched her purse was shot and critically injured early Friday in northeast Omaha, police said.

Wayman Clark was taken to Creighton University Medical Center after he was shot about 1 a.m. outside a house near 34th and Seward Streets, police said. He was on a sidewalk outside the house when police arrived. He was stable in the hour after he arrived at the hospital.

Police accused Johnathon Semans, 21, of shooting Clark with a handgun. Semans was taken into custody when he returned to the scene in the minutes afterward, police said.

“When the officers got here, he came back,” Omaha Police Lt. Enrico Ramos said.

Semans lives at the house near where Clark was shot. Clark does not live there.

Clark is awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to robbery in the August 2015 case in which he punched a 76-year-old woman, Lucille Morinelli, during a purse-snatching inside the vestibule at St. Cecilia Cathedral.

He faces a minimum of one year in jail and a maximum of 50 years in prison after striking Morinelli on the side of her face, knocking her down.