Edward Poindexter, one of two men convicted of killing an Omaha Police officer in a 1970 suitcase bombing, has died in prison.
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says the 79-year old Poindexter died Thursday at the Corrections Reception and Treatment Center in Lincoln, where he was being treated for a medical condition.
Corrections says no official cause of death has been determined, and there will be a grand jury investigation, which is required under state law.
Poindexter’s sentence began on April 17th, 1971.
He was serving a life sentence for first degree murder in the death of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard.
Officer Minard died on August 17th, 1970 when a suitcase bomb went off while police were checking on a report of a woman being assaulted at a vacant house at 28th and Ohio Streets.
Minard's partner, John Tess, was injured in the bombing.
David Rice, also convicted in the case, died in 2016, and there had long been efforts from advocates to free the men for being wrongly convicted.
Rice was long known as Mondo we Langa.
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