This photo provided by the Omaha Police Department on Sunday, April 18, 2021 shows Makhi Woolridge-Jones. Police said the 16-year-old is wanted on a charge of first-degree murder in a Saturday shooting at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb. (Omaha Police Department via AP)
Republished April 18, 2021 - 11:18 AM
Original Publication Date April 18, 2021 - 9:00 AM
OMAHA, Neb. - A teenage boy suspected in a shooting at a Nebraska mall that left one man dead and a woman injured was arrested Sunday on a murder warrant, police said.
Omaha Police said 16-year-old Makhi Woolridge-Jones is facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting Saturday at the Westroads Mall in Omaha. Brandon Woolridge-Jones, 18, was earlier arrested on a charge of being an accessory to the shooting.
The two young men were identified as brothers in a previous court filing their mother submitted in 2016 for a protection order.
Police spokesman Officer Michael Pecha said investigators were not seeking any other suspects Sunday.
Terrified shoppers fled for cover as shots rang out around midday near a J.C. Penney store at the mall
Police said 21-year-old Trequez Swift was shot and died at an Omaha hospital. A woman, 22-year-old Ja’Keya Veland, was wounded in her leg, but her injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Authorities have not described the circumstances leading up to the shooting, but said it was an isolated incident and not a random attack.
Last month, Omaha Police Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck was shot at four times by a 21-year-old man who was accused of shoplifting T-shirts from J.C. Penney at Westroads. Wittstruck survived.
In 2007, a gunman killed eight people and himself inside the Von Maur department store at Westroads.
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