LINCOLN- A Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services caseworker is recovering from a gunshot to the leg during a welfare check this week. According to the Lincoln Police Department, officers were called to the area of North 7th and ‘Y’ Streets where officers found a 28-year-old man with one gunshot wound to his leg.

Lincoln Police Department has at this time not released the name of the man shot but he was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries by Lincoln Fire and Rescue. Police investigation found that two DHHS caseworkers were responding to the home for a child welfare check when while on the lawn, Brent Lopez, 38, of Lincoln, came outside and fired multiple rounds with a handgun.

The Lincoln Police Department said police arrested Lopez without incident for assault on an officer, a Class II felony, use of a firearm to commit a felony, and was taken to the Lancaster County Jail. The three children interviewed at the BraveBe Child Advocacy Center and will be "cared for at a safe location", according to the Lincoln Police Department.

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