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Council Bluffs Police Shooting update

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May 1st, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Officials with the Council Bluffs Police Department have released additional information with regard to an officer involved shooting that took place a little after 3-a.m. Tuesday (Today). Authorities say a preliminary review of the available evidence and information has been completed by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber and the Council Bluffs Police Department.

As a result of that review Council Bluffs detectives have obtained felony arrest warrants for 28-year old Clifton A. Wade, whose last known address was in Bondurant. Wade was still being treated at a local hospital for non‐life‐threatening injuries (including lacerations to his face and a gunshot wound to the arm) suffered during a collision with two Council Bluffs Police cruisers and from being shot by a Council Bluffs Police Officer following the collisions. Upon his medical release, he will be turned over to Nebraska authorities on warrants for two-counts of Attempted Murder, Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer, and felony Eluding.

Wade has not yet been booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail. All the officers involved made it home safely. The officer who fired the shots that injured Wade has been placed on administrative leave while the investigation runs its course. The other four officers have been cleared to return to duty. Their names will not be released until sometime later this week.

Wade was arrested and transported to the hospital following a chase that started near a construction site. The pursuit began on South 11th Street in Council Bluffs and ended on Interstate 29 southbound.