A Nebraska state prison inmate has been served an arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in a 2017 North Omaha homicide.
Wilbert Smith, 32, is suspected of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 21-year-old Xavier Bass on Nov. 5, 2017. Bass died after being shot inside a vehicle on the North Freeway near the Hamilton Street exit. A 24-year-old man was also injured in the shooting and related crash.
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Smith is currently serving a prison sentence for unrelated drug charges at the Reception and Treatment Center in Lincoln, according to Nebraska Department of Corrections records.
One person was taken to a hospital with serious injuries Sunday following a shooting in South Omaha during the annual Cinco de Mayo Festival.
An 18-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday in connection with the stabbing death of another teenager in North Omaha.
An Ashland man pleaded no contest on Wednesday to reduce charges related to a July 2023 shooting of two men at a southwest Omaha apartment complex.
The site of a 2022 shooting that left a 20-year-old Omaha woman dead has been transformed into a therapeutic group home for female teenagers.
Council Bluffs police officers are investigating human remains found near US Highway 275 in southeast Council Bluffs.
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A Bellevue man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months to two years in prison for being an accessory to a fatal assault of a fellow inmate at the Sarpy County Jail last year.
An Omaha man who was shot multiple times by police after he drove his car toward a crowd of people celebrating Halloween in the Minne Lusa neighborhood was sentenced Tuesday to 12 to 16 years in prison.
A Council Bluffs man was sentenced on Monday to 16 to 17 years behind bars for fatally shooting another man at a car show last summer.
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A 38-year-old Bellevue man convicted in February of killing his two toddler children was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences Monday.
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