Overview
- Police identified the gunman as 28-year-old Salvadoran national Juan Ayala-Ramos, also reported as Juan Melgar-Ayala, and say they tracked him by license plate after an earlier grocery-store shooting.
- In a QuikTrip restroom, the suspect fired at least 16 rounds, wounding four Omaha officers before police returned fire and killed him.
- The civilian victim, 61-year-old Michael Kasper, was shot multiple times at Phil’s Foodway and remains hospitalized in serious condition but is expected to survive.
- DHS says Ayala-Ramos entered the U.S. illegally as an unaccompanied minor in 2007, and an immigration judge later administratively closed his removal case.
- Omaha police named the injured officers as Sgt. Emilio Luna, Detective Brock Rengo, Detective Jordan Brandt, and Detective Christopher Brown and said detectives are probing the handgun’s source and potential motive.