The Nebraska State Patrol is sorting out the details after one person was killed and another assaulted in Polk County overnight. The patrol says the suspect is also in the hospital with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
NSP spokesman Cody Thomas says around 2:00 Tuesday morning the Polk County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance in response to an incident that involved multiple scenes near Shelby. The preliminary investigation shows that deputies found a man dead from an apparent gunshot wound at a business on a county road south of Shelby.
A second scene was also located on farm ground on another county road. “An injured man was found at the second scene with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Thomas says. “The man was transported to Bryan Health West Campus in Lincoln with life-threatening injuries.”
Deputies were alerted to the incident at approximately 1:30 a.m. when a woman was able to drive herself from the second scene to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office to report the incident and that she had been assaulted. The victim was then transported to Columbus Community Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
The investigation is ongoing and investigations believe there is no threat to the public.