Police say the Des Moines-area officers were sitting in their patrol cars when they were shot and killed. USA TODAY NETWORK
DES MOINES — Authorities captured a 46-year-old male suspect without incident Wednesday, hours after an early-morning "ambush-style" killing of two police officers in the Des Moines metro area.
The suspect in the back-to-back killings was identified as Scott Michael Greene, said Urbandale police spokesman Sgt. Chad Underwood. Before capturing him, police had described Greene, who was last seen driving a blue Ford F-150 with an Iowa license plate, as armed and dangerous.
Authorities said he surrendered to a Department of Natural Resources officer in adjoining Dallas County without any struggle and was in the custody of the Iowa State Patrol.
Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek told CNN that Greene, who is white, was captured while walking alone "on foot, on a road."
The killings began around 1:06 a.m. CT, when police departments from adjoining cities responded to reports of gunfire at the intersection of 70th Street and Aurora Avenue in Urbandale.
The first officers arriving on the scene found an Urbandale officer shot. The officer, whose name was not released, later died, Parizek said.
The second attack occurred around 1:26 a.m. CT when a Des Moines officer responding to the initial attack was fatally shot near the intersection of Merle Hay Road and Sheridan Avenue.
Both officers were gunned down in their patrol cars.
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