The name of the Omaha Police officer who shot and wounded a 15-year-old boy Friday afternoon was disclosed on Sunday.

The teen remains in critical, but stable condition at the Nebraska Medical Center. His name has not been released since he's a juvenile.

Officer Justin Knapp stopped a car near 84th and F streets just before 4:30 p.m. for having expired license plates. Officer Josiah Warren arrived to assist.

The boy ran from the vehicle, then allegedly turned and fired at police and Officer Warren returned fire, wounding the teen in the chest.

Warren, who joined OPD in 2008, has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure during an investigation by Internal Affairs and the Homicide Unit of the Omaha Police Department.

Warren is a decorated officer, a veteran of the Iraq War and now, though it is routine, he is at the center of a police investigation.

It's the hardest decision an officer will ever make and worse, it's one that must be made in just seconds. "It's a difficult situation to be put in because you don't have any information until after the fact," says Dave Friend, who worked as a police officer in Omaha for 26 years.

He's one of a handful of officers that has shot someone in the line of duty. Friend says once the trigger is pulled, for a police officer, everything changes. “In any instance where an officer uses force, the officer then becomes a suspect in a criminal investigation.”

“I've never seen in all my years in law enforcement a situation where an officer wasn't read his rights, you have the right to remain silent, right to an attorney and that right makes the officer feel like they're on the suspect side of this.”

Friend says the next few weeks will be trying for Warren as the police investigation heats up. Routine paid administrative leave suddenly becomes an opportunity for what is often a painful re-enactment of the incident.

“It's very frustrating to be sitting on the outside of the situation where you’re waiting to be officially judged to see what you did was right or wrong when you had only a split second to make a decision,” says Friend.

Two men in the car were arrested, 20-year-old Charles Thompson of Omaha and Allen Jones, both booked for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

Police later determined that Jones gave a false name and is actually 22-year-old Richard Holmes of Bellevue. Holmes was rebooked for possession with intent to deliver marijuana, false information, obstructing and several misdemeanor warrants.

Thompson, the owner of the car, was also booked for no insurance or registration and a bond review.