WATCH: Iowa shooting suspect posts video of Oct. run-in with police

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

UPDATE @ 11:43 a.m.

The Iowa police shooting suspect, Scott Greene, is believed to have posted a 10-minute cell phone video to his YouTube channel from an incident Oct. 14, 2016, in Urbandale, Iowa. The video shows him in a heated discussion with officers as they trespassed him from the city’s high school football stadium. In the video police state Greene displayed a confederate flag in front of a group of African Americans and caused a disturbance. He was being trespassed at the request of the school. Greene claims he was exercising his constitutional rights of peaceful protest, and that a group of African Americans assaulted him with a quick shove in the stands. He also claimed his flag was stolen. He demanded the officers take an assault and theft report, and claims his civil rights were violated.

It is not known if any of the officers in the video with Greene are one of the victims of Wednesday morning’s ambush shooting.

Greene also posted a photograph of himself on his YouTube channel on Oct. 14, 2016 of him holding a confederate flag at a football stadium.

UPDATE @ 11:17 a.m.

Police have confirmed that the suspect, Scott Michael Greene, 46, of Urbandale, is in custody, according to The Associated Press.

Greene was taken into custody without incident Wednesday morning in Dallas County, west of Des Moines, the AP reports.

UPDATE @ 10:30 a.m.

There are reports that the suspect in the killings of two Iowa police officers is in custody.

The suspect, Scott Michael Greene, 46, of Urbandale, was wanted after the two officers were shot and killed in ambush style-attacks early Wednesday morning.

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INITIAL REPORT

Two police officers were shot and killed in ambush style-attacks Wednesday morning in Des Moines, Iowa, CBS affiliate KCCI-TV reports.

The two shootings occurred about 20 minutes apart, around 1:05 a.m. and 1:25 a.m. Central Standard Time, the station reports.

An officer from the Urbandale Police Department, a suburb of Des Moines, was killed in the first shooting. An officer from the Des Moines Police Department was killed in the second.

Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said in a news conference both officers appear to have been shot while sitting in their cars.

“It doesn’t look like there was any interaction between these officers and whoever the coward is who shot them while they sat in their cars,” he said.

Police said they are in the process of developing suspect information, KCCI-TV reports.

We’ll update this page as new details become available.

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