Omaha police officers shoot, kill gunman at Target. Here's what we know - KETV Omaha

Omaha constabulary officers changeable and killed a suspected progressive shooter astatine a Target connected Tuesday.Authorities said the fishy had fired aggregate shots wrong the store — helium had an AR-15-style firearm and 13 loaded firearm magazines successful his possession.No civilians were wounded during the incident.Here's everything we've learned truthful acold astir what happened.What happened?Omaha constabulary said officers responded to a study of an progressive shooter wrong the Target, located adjacent 178th Street and West Center Road, astir 11:59 a.m.Investigators said the antheral had fired aggregate shots wrong the store — helium had an AR-15-style firearm and 13 loaded firearm magazines successful his possession. Authorities said that uniformed Omaha constabulary officers and a authorities trooper arrived astatine the Target and encountered the fishy equipped with a firearm upon entering.Officers said galore large verbal commands were directed astatine the suspect, ordering him to driblet the rifle.An Omaha constabulary serviceman past fired their work handgun, striking and sidesplitting the suspect, instrumentality enforcement said. Fire unit aboriginal declared him dead.Omaha constabulary said officers conducted 3 searches of the store aft encountering the gunman, uncovering slug casings but nary victims, earlier declaring the country safe.Douglas County 911 said they received astatine slightest 29 calls regarding the incident.A reappraisal of constabulary scanner postulation indicates the suspected shooter was dormant six minutes aft the archetypal telephone for help.Multiple county, authorities and national agencies assisted successful the effect to the incident, according to Omaha police.Who was the suspect?Law enforcement told KETV NewsWatch 7 that the fishy is simply a achromatic antheral successful his aboriginal 30s.There is nary denotation astatine this clip what relationship, if any, helium had with the store.Omaha constabulary said the fishy volition beryllium identified erstwhile adjacent of kin has been contacted — the probe is ongoing.The motive is not known astatine this time.What the witnesses sawWhen constabulary accidental an progressive shooter fired an AR-15-style rifle, customers and employees said they had 2 choices: to tally oregon hide.In a cellphone video Elianne Robinson recorded, a gunshot tin beryllium heard portion she hides successful the fitting room. Robinson, a Target employee, tin beryllium seen telling loved ones she loves them portion she hoped for the best."There was a stool successful the fitting room, and portion of our grooming was 'use immoderate merchandise oregon immoderate shelving units that you can' to support yourself if you person to. So erstwhile that stool was successful there, I was like, 'If I person to usage it, I will,'" she said.Jasmine Gascar said she was connected her luncheon interruption buying astatine Target astatine the time. She decided to spell effort connected immoderate apparel erstwhile she started proceeding gunshots."I truly thought I was going to die, I truly thought I was going to die," Gascar said. "It conscionable felt similar they were coming person and closer."While immoderate employees hid, others, similar Curt Cyr, fled."The lone happening I saw was employees sprinting to the backmost of the store, saying, 'active shooter,'" Cyr said. "You ne'er deliberation it's going to hap to you. But erstwhile it does, it's conscionable it's combat oregon flight, you know, That's what it is. It's conscionable adrenaline wholly hitting you to the fullest."Eventually, Robinson said, an serviceman came to her portion she hid."We identified ourselves, we're 3 women successful the fitting room, truthful we unfastened the doorway (the serviceman is) like, 'Hands up,' truthful we had our hands, showing we didn't person anything," she said.When volition Target reopen?Omaha constabulary said the store volition beryllium closed until Thursday portion they proceed to investigate.Target volition beryllium assisting with returning idiosyncratic spot to shoppers astatine the store connected Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. The westbound entranceway volition beryllium open, and you'll request to validate your spot — determination volition beryllium nary buying allowed.