Brandi Villamonte was dispatching officers from the communications center in the basement at the Lincoln Police Department on Aug. 26 when the words came out on the radio over the lunch hour.

“Shots fired. Officer down.”

Villamonte said she knew her husband, an officer in the gang unit at LPD, was on scene at the house at 33rd and Vine streets, serving a warrant for a teenager wanted in connection to a murder… READ MORE