Omaha police shoot and kill woman after alleged Walmart kidnapping attempt

Officers from the Omaha Police Department (OPD) changeable and killed a pistillate successful the parking batch of an Omaha, Nebraska Walmart aft she chopped a 3-year-old lad with a weapon connected Tuesday, constabulary told Fox News Digital.

"When officers arrived, they encountered a pistillate who chopped an astir 3-year-old lad with ample knife. Officers changeable the woman, who died astatine the scene. The lad was taken to the hospital," the OPD said successful a connection connected X.

Police stressed that it was an isolated incidental and that determination was nary menace to the nationalist astatine the time.

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Police arrived to the Walmart, located astatine 72nd St. betwixt Pacific and Mercy Road, astatine astir 9:20 a.m., according to section media reports.

Omaha Police responded to an alleged stabbing incidental astatine a Walmart successful Omaha, NE connected April 14, 2026. (Google Earth)

The pistillate had taken the kid from his caretaker and made him locomotion outside, OPD Deputy Chief Scott Gray reportedly told reporters astatine the scene, according to WOWT.

When constabulary began to springiness the pistillate commands, she started "swiping" astatine the child, giving the kid lacerations to the hands and face, Gray said

The kid was taken to a section infirmary for the injuries but is expected to survive.

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Omaha, Nebraska, constabulary changeable and killed a antheral who opened occurrence astatine a section Target store. (Chris Machian/Omaha World-Herald)

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A spokesperson for Walmart condemned the incidental successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Violence similar this is unacceptable. We’re moving with constabulary and supporting them successful their investigation," the connection read.

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