Two Iowa cops were found dead after ambush-style attacks in the Des Moines area early Wednesday morning, and a suspect in the killings has been taken into custody.
Scott Michael Greene surrendered to a Department of Natural Resources officer in Dallas County on Wednesday and was taken into custody without struggle, The Des Moines Register reported, citing Urbandale police spokesman Sgt. Chad Underwood.
Green, a 46-year-old Urbandale resident, was identified earlier by police as a suspect in the killings, The Associated Press reported.
The two officers “were gunned down when they were sitting in their car,” Sgt. Paul Parizek, a spokesman for the Des Moines Police Department, told reporters, according to NBC News.
“In all appearances it looks just like that, that these officers were ambushed,” Parizek said, according to Fox News. “It doesn’t look like there was any interaction between these cowards and the officers they shot in their cars.”
The first officer was found dead a little after 1 a.m. in Urbandale and the second officer’s body was found in Des Moines at 1:26 a.m. The second officer had been taken to the hospital, but died shortly after, NBC noted.
Parizek discussed the tension between police and community members throughout the country, sparked by high-profile police shootings.
“I don’t even know where to begin, how bad this year is,” Parizek said, according to NBC, before adding that the conflicts have left some community members with “not-so-positive views of law enforcement.”
In early July, a sniper killed five officers in Dallas during what started out as a peaceful protest over high-profile police shootings of black men. Later that month, three officers were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, there have been 111 police officers killed in the line of duty so far this year, and 50 of those deaths have been gunfire-related.
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