Teen Arrested on Murder Warrant in Westroads Mall Shooting
A teenage boy — suspected in a shooting that left one man dead and a woman injured — was arrested Sunday on a murder warrant, police said.
Omaha Police said that 16-year-old Makhi Woolridge-Jones is facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting Saturday at the Westroads Mall. Brandon Woolridge-Jones, 18, was arrested on a charge of being an accessory to the shooting.
The two young men were identified as brothers in a previous court filing their mother submitted in 2016 for a protection order. Police spokesman Officer Michael Pecha said investigators were not seeking any other suspects Sunday.
Terrified shoppers fled for cover as shots rang out around midday near a J.C. Penney store at the mall. Police said 21-year-old Trequez Swift was shot and died at an Omaha hospital. A woman, 22-year-old Ja’Keya Veland, was wounded, but her injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Authorities have not described the circumstances leading up to the shooting, but said it was an isolated incident and not a random attack.
Last month, Omaha Police Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck was shot at four times by a 21-year-old man who was accused of shoplifting T-shirts from J.C. Penney at Westroads. Wittstruck survived.
In 2007, a gunman killed eight people and himself inside the Von Maur department store at Westroads.
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