The 22-year-old man slain outside of an Old Market bar in #Omaha has been identified. Police have not announced any arrests involving the shooter. And downtown is digging out from a night of protests and police response.
Hearing some people questioning why we haven't yet identified the shooter. We are awaiting official confirmation. Without it, we would be accusing someone of shooting instead of the people investigating the death. We will update the story when we have it verified.
Tense times don't change our need to make sure we get it right. Same reason it took a while for us to confirm the name of the person who was shot, James Scurlock, 22.
Story has been updated to reflect that the shooter remains in @OmahaPolice custody. Police say the investigation continues and they asked anybody with video or information to call. Phone number is in the story.
The father of James Scurlock III, also named James, just gave a statement on what he'd like to see. He asked for peace. He said he didn't want people to loot or be violent in his son's name. He asked Douglas Co. Attorney Don Kleine to prosecute his son's shooter.
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Crowd line outside the Tim Walz rally in La Vista.
Here’s the inside of the venue.
As long as signal allows, I'll live tweet. Here's what's going on today. Nebraska native Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor who Vice President Kamala Harris chose as her running mate, has come back.
The #Nebraska Legislature after dark tonight is discussing an unfriendly amendment to LB 1300 that opens the possibility of a test vote for the potential of changing the way the state awards its Electoral College votes. Most do not see the votes to clear a filibuster. (THREAD)
For people just tuning in: Many of the Democrats and a progressive registered nonpartisan in the officially nonpartisan unicameral (one-house) Legislature are extolling the virtues of continuing to split up Nebraska's electoral votes by congressional district.
At issue for some, including former President @realDonaldTrump, is that the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District remains one of the nation's most competitive. It voted for President @JoeBiden in 2020, sending one of the state's five electoral votes to the Democrat over Trump.
At the presser for the Support Our Schools group that says they have gathered nearly double the signatures they needed to get on the #Nebraska’s 2024 general election ballot. They’ve been delivering boxes to Sec of State.
Will try to tweet a little of the presser.
NSEA president Jenni Benson says the sheer number of signatures “sends a powerful message to elected officials and Nebraskans need them to listen. Nebraskans support public schools.”
Thread today @NEGOP’s State Central Committee meeting in Norfolk. They’re discussing typical party business. Some of the focus will be on a party constitutional amendment proposal to remove the voting power of four GOP-affiliated groups from state party’s Executive Committee.
The proposal from a 3rd District member, would make advisory members instead of voting members out of the Federation of Republican Women, Young Republicans, College Republicans and High School Republicans. The GOP chair could then exclude any of them from certain exec meetings.
This likely sounds like gobbledygook. Essentially, some partisans say they want to take away these votes because the groups side more often with the traditional wing of the GOP or the Ricketts wing. Some rural folks think the groups give unfair power to urban and suburban areas.
The folks handling Capitol Security and the redcoats are taking the step today of separating the supporters and opponents of Legislative Bill 626, a proposal to ban abortions in the state after an ultrasound detects embryonic cardiac activity.
There are already some folks here standing in the Rotunda who say they are against LB 626.