For the second time this weekend, an Omaha Police officer is involved in a shooting. The latest, early Sunday morning, by an off-duty officer working as security for a midtown bar.

The second officer-involved shooting happened at 40th and Farnam, outside of Cheater’s Bar, shortly after 12 a.m.

According to witnesses, there was a disturbance inside the bar and carried on outside. From there the details become sketchy, but one of the two Omaha officers working as security for the bar fired into a vehicle at the scene.

Minutes after shots are fired outside Cheater's Bar, the area was taped off and the first of several investigations got underway. What began as a fight inside the bar spilled out into the street and shots were fired.

Officer Jake Bettin says, "When cruiser officers arrived they learned that one of the off-duty officers had discharged his firearm into a vehicle. That vehicle then fled the scene."

After fleeing from 40th and Farnam, the driver went to Katherina Page's home.

Katherina Page says, "They're like the police shot us, the police shot us and I’m like what do you mean the police shot you all?"

Page says two of the people in that truck that fled the scene were her cousins. One of those two, Armando Butler was shot by the off-duty officer.

Page wasn't at the bar, but says her cousins told her what happened at Cheater's. "They explained to me how they got into a bar fight at Cheater's, but from there I guess the police just started shooting at them when they were leaving the bar fight, the police just started shooting from nowhere."

Page says part of the reason her cousins went to her home instead of the hospital is because Armando was shot by an Omaha officer. Page says her cousins were scared and just wanted to lay low for awhile.

"They didn't stop, they kept going far as driving off and they got to a point where the car, the tires were flat and stuff, windows were shattered from the gunshots, so they had to park the car."

A second car took them to Katherina's, who then called for an ambulance.

Omaha Police would like more witnesses to what went on inside and outside of Cheater's to step forward. A lot of people witnessed what happened and someone may have seen something missed by others.

The second Omaha Police Officer involved shooting in as many nights has one Heartland woman extremely upset. Her cousin was the man shot by an off duty officer working security.

The fight that started inside Cheaters Bar quickly spilled out onto the street and began to get out of control.

Two off duty Omaha Police Officers were working as security for the bar, one of those fired shots into a vehicle at the scene.

Katherina Page says, "I think they're trigger happy, trigger happy."

Katherina Page minces no words when talking about what happened at Cheaters late Saturday night, early Sunday morning.

Page says her cousins were in the bar when they were jumped, the fight spilled out onto the street, from there things got to the point one of the officers drew his firearm and fired. Her cousin Armando Butler was hit in the leg.

Katherina Page says, "They were unarmed they were unarmed it was a bar fight you know there are other ways to going about doing that you know they are trained for situations like that they don't have to shoot you can mace there are things you can do you don't have to shoot."

Page is right there is a force continuum officers must follow. Deadly force, firing their weapon is an officer's last option. Only if their life or the lives of others are at risk are they suppose to draw and shoot.

Determining what happened outside Cheaters is important to everyone.

Officer Jake Bettin says, "We know that there are other witnesses out there that we should interview so we don't want to release any details until we get all the facts of the case put together."

Police will want to know exactly what the shooting victim Armando Butler and his brother, as well as everyone else were doing.
And why it took two hours for a wounded Armando to go to the hospital.

Katherina Page says, "You have no evidence on them that they were armed or anything so that goes to tell you that the law enforcement, O.P.D. was against, they were wrong."

Currently there are three investigations into this shooting.

Omaha Homicide is investigating the incident, Internal Affairs also has an open investigation as well as the Safety Review Committee. They get involved any time an officer fires his weapon.

O.P.D. is asking any witnesses to step forward and call 444-5656.