HUSBAND OF MAYOR JEAN STOTHERT FOUND DEAD AT COUPLE'S SOUTHWEST OMAHA HOME

OMAHA- Husband of Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert was found dead at the couple's home Friday afternoon. Authorities received a call at

1:53 p.m. about a shooting at the southwest Omaha home. The neighborhood is being blocked by an Omaha police cruiser. 

Stothert was a board-certified critical care physician at Nebraska Medicine. He and Mayor Stothert were married for 40 years. He served as the medical director for the Omaha Fire Department's paramedic's training program and continued to volunteer with the department afterwards. He had also been a surgeon on many high-profile trauma cases.

As of Friday afternoon, authorities say the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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