In the pre-dawn hours of November 2, 2016, 24-year-old Urbandale Police Officer Justin Scott Martin was seated in his patrol car at 70th Street and Aurora Avenue in Des Moines when a man approached and opened fire into the driver’s side. Nearby citizens reported hearing between 15 and 30 gunshots and called 911.

Responding officers found Officer Martin inside his vehicle with fatal injuries; the shooter fled the scene.Meanwhile, about 20 minutes later and roughly two miles away, an officer from the Des Moines Police Department, Sergeant Anthony Beminio, was ambushed and shot at Merle Hay Road and Sheridan Avenue and later died. The suspect surrendered to law enforcement in Dallas County later that morning and was identified as Scott Michael Greene.

On May 19, 2017, Greene pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and received two consecutive life terms in prison.If anyone saw the shootings, either scene, or has information about the movements of the suspect that morning, please come forward.