Both Omaha Police and Fire Departments are investigating after an intense morning. A stabbing, fire, and officer involved shooting all happened at the Walnut Hill apartments near 41st and Hamilton Friday morning.
Just after 7:30 this morning police and fire arrived here. The person who called 911 told dispatchers that a neighbor was stabbed with a knife and someone poured gasoline on someone. Firefighters and medics had to wait on police to secure the scene. When officers got to the apartments , they had to forcibly open the door to gain entry and found a fire inside, which they put out in about ten minutes.
There were two men inside. As the situation quickly unfolded, one of the responding officers fired his duty weapon and another officer deployed his taser. Police have not yet been able to determine if the intended target was struck by gunfire. All of this was frightening for people like Jasmine Brown, who lives here with her children. "I don't want to stay here anymore. Because anything can happen you know and I got babies and I got to think about stuff like that and I don't want nothing bad to happen to them. "
Medics took to two men to CHI Creighton in critical condition, They've since been taken to St. Elizabeth's burn center in Lincoln. "I know that there is a protocol of a certain percentage of the body has to be covered and then the severity of those burns" said Assistant Fire Chief Tim McCaw.
