Kerrie Orozco was gunned down by a suspect hours before she was to bring her premature baby daughter home from the hospital.
Kerrie Orozco was killed in the line of duty on Wednesday, hours before she was to bring her 3-month-old baby girl, Olivia Ruth, home from the hospital.
Olivia Ruth was born in February and was supposed to be released from the Nebraska Medical Unit on Thursday. Orozco, who had delayed her maternity leave until she could bring her baby home, was going to take time off to look after daughter on the same day.
The 29-year-old Omaha police officer was shot in an exchange of gunfire while serving an arrest warrant to a convicted felon, NBC News reported.
Orozco, a seven year veteran of the Omaha Police Department, worked for the Gang Unit since 2012.
She was part of a task force sent to serve a felony warrant arrest to Marcus Wheeler, a 26-year-old known gang member wanted in connection to a shooting in Omaha, Police Chief Todd Schmaderer told reporters.
When Wheeler saw police waiting for him he shot at them and ran through a wooded area. Both Wheeler and Orozco were then hit in an exchange of gunfire between him and members of the task force.
They were rushed to the Creighton University Medical Center but neither survived.
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