Omaha Police investigated a shooting involving one of their own officers in North Omaha near 25th and Wirt streets Friday afternoon. Officers were dispatched to the area around 4 p.m. for a shooting call.
According to WOWT, officers responded to a shooting call in the area of 25th and Wirt around 4 p.m. Friday. Police said no officers were injured in the incident, though the department did not immediately release further details about what led up to the shooting. KETV reported that the officer-involved shooting sent one person to the hospital with critical injuries, and that one officer discharged their firearm during the incident, according to police.
Traffic Restrictions and Media Staging Near the Scene
The investigation was centered near 25th and Wirt. Members of the media responding to the scene were directed to stage at 23rd and Wirt streets, the department said. As of Friday, the investigation was ongoing, the department reported, with no additional updates released on the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
The incident near 25th and Wirt comes just a week after another Omaha Police response turned violent elsewhere in the city. WOWT reported that officers were dispatched to an altercation that turned into a shooting Friday afternoon in a separate incident the previous week, though details on that case remain limited.
A Longer-Term Dip in Officer-Involved Shootings
Friday's incident adds to a dataset that Omaha Police have tracked for more than a decade. From 2010 to 2016, the department averaged more than six-and-a-half officer-involved shootings per year, according to data reported by KETV. That figure dropped by half from 2017 to 2023, the station found, with seven officer-involved shootings recorded in 2023 alone. It is not yet clear how Friday's shooting will factor into that broader trend, and police have not released further information on the person taken to the hospital or the specific circumstances that preceded the gunfire.
Hoodline will continue to follow developments as Omaha Police release additional information about the North Omaha shooting and the status of the ongoing investigation.
