Two US police officers shot dead in separate ambush attacks

Two police officers were killed in ‘ambush- style attacks’ as they sat in their cars in Iowa. Officers rushed to the scene after reports of shots being fired at around 1.06am. When they arrived they found one of their colleagues’ dead body in the Urbandale suburb of Des Moines. A second officer was then discovered about 20 minutes later in the city. Police have now captured the man suspected of killing the two officers. Officers from Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa State Patrol have taken 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene into custody and are now taking him to Des Moines.Both officers are deceased,’ an initial statement from the Des Moines police department said. ‘The shootings appear to have been ambush-style attacks.’ At a press conference, Des Moines Police Sgt Paul Parizek added that there is ‘clearly danger’ for police in the area right now, because the victims were gunned down while sitting in their cars rather than while they were responding to an incident. The shootings happened less than two miles apart from each other, Sgt Parizek said, and both took place along main streets which cut through residential areas. Urbandale officers are equipped with body cameras, but it’s not clear whether these officers’ cameras were recording at the time of the killings. ‘There’s somebody out there shooting police officers,’ he said, struggling to control his emotions. ‘We hope to find him before somebody else gets hurt.’ Authorities have doubled up on the number of officers in response to the attacks.