2/27/2022- 7:40 p.m.
Ankeny police told residents to “shelter in place” for several hours overnight Saturday after two people fired shots at officers while fleeing from a car police had stopped in connection with an investigation, a spokesperson for the department said.Â
Polk County Emergency Management sent a message about 7:30 a.m. saying Ankeny police had lifted the request, although the shooters were still at large.Â
Police Sgt. Corey Schneden said in a news release that no officers were injured, but that they didn’t know if the people who fired at them had been wounded when police fired back. He requested that people continue to avoid the area of Southwest Oralabor Road and Northwest 26th Street, where the shots were fired.
The incident began at 10:54 p.m. when officers were dispatched to investigate a report of a large fight at Prairie Point Apartments, 1343 S.W. Prairie Trail Pkwy. near the The District at Prairie Trail entertainment complex. Schneden’s release said a caller told dispatchers multiple shots had been fired, and another caller said a white vehicle had left the area after the gunfire.
Police spotted a white car with no lights on and pulled it over.
“As this vehicle came to a stop, two subjects exited the vehicle and began shooting at officers as they ran from the vehicle to the southwest,” Schneden said in the release. “Officers returned fire, but both subjects were able to run into a wooded area.”
Police issued the shelter in place request at 11:43 p.m. as they searched for the suspects. Detectives detained and questioned two juveniles who remained in the vehicle and charged them in connection with the fight at the apartment complex, Schneden said.
