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UPDATE: Suspect and victims identified in Thursday night non-fatal shooting and dog bite incident

OPD: The dog was not a police K-9
Omaha Police
Posted at 6:49 PM, Dec 02, 2021
and last updated 2021-12-06 11:38:15-05

UPDATE 12/3/2021

Officer Phillip Anson with the Omaha Police Department confirmed a non-fatal shooting early Thursday evening near 45th and Spencer Streets. On Friday OPD released the name of the suspect, 22-year-old Robert Pierce. He has been booked into Douglas County Corrections for 2nd degree assault and use of a weapon.

The shooting victim was identified by police as 30-year-old Seth Dabney, who was transported to Nebraska Medicine with non-life-threatening injuries along with a female dog bite victim, 20-year-old Skyler Pierce.

Anson noted that the dog was not an OPD K-9, but one that happened to be on the scene.

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