LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Lincoln police say a man who was shot outside the Nebraska Capitol was fleeing from authorities who had initiated a traffic stop.
Capt. Dan Reitan says police stopped the man shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday about four blocks west of the Capitol before he fled.
Reitan says officers were told the man was armed. He says the man was shot at least once on 14th Street along the western edge of the Capitol. No officers were injured.
Ron Jensen with Jensen and Rogert Associates in Lincoln says he saw the chase from his office on S. 14th Street and said the man running ran right by their office.
“I turned and looked outside and saw a guy running. In just a second or two, he ran out of my view.”
Jensen adds that officers soon found the man laid out on the sidewalk on the west side of the capital.
“This guy was laying down just off the sidewalk. As I recall, three officers were holding him down and as I watched, the guy was yelling in either pain or anger, probably both.”
The man, later identified as 18-year old Tariek Artis, was taken to a local hospital.
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