2 deputies' use of deadly force deemed justified; system for alerts will be revised

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/deputies-use-of-deadly-force-deemed-justified-system-for-alerts/article_d50a9d24-2b38-11e5-b3ce-a7f3cb11fee5.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2015 4:30 PM
By Maggie O’Brien and Alissa Skelton / World-Herald staff writers

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office plans to improve the way officers are alerted to dangerous individuals after two deputies were shot at outside a convenience store three weeks ago.

A notice had gone out to Omaha-area officers warning police that Taylor Culbertson had threatened to shoot officers if they tried to arrest him.

All deputies should have seen the alert, but Deputies Wade Grim and Chad Miller didn’t recognize Culbertson by his looks, his driver’s license or his vehicle description when they stopped him from leaving the parking lot of the Kwik Shop at 156th and Blondo Streets on June 23, said Chief Deputy Tom Wheeler.

Officers would have been warned by 911 dispatchers about the threats if they were dispatched to Culbertson’s home address, Wheeler said.

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