The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating an officer involved shooting involving the Milford Police Department. The incident happened during the early morning hours of Thursday, September 2.
The NSP says the preliminary investigation shows that at approximately 3:15 a.m. a Milford Police Officer contacted the occupants of a vehicle parked at Super Storage in Milford. The people were reportedly uncooperative and the driver accelerated and fled as the officer was standing near the front of the vehicle.
The officer then fired his weapon, striking the rear driver’s side tire. The vehicle stopped north of Milford because of the flat tire. The driver, 21 year old Tyrez Ashley of Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested by Milford Police for willful reckless driving, felony flight to avoid arrest and criminal impersonation. He was booked in the Seward County Jail.
No one was injured and the Milford Police Department has requested that the Nebraska State Patrol conduct an investigation into the incident.