Daughter says she’s in shock after dad charged with murder
DES MOINES, Iowa — The distraught daughter of a man accused of killing two Iowa police officers said Friday that she talked to her father just two hours before the fatal shootings, and it was “the most normal conversation that we’ve ever had.”
Samantha Greene sobbed as she watched her father, Scott Michael Greene, make his first court appearance though a television monitor from jail. The 46-year-old stood silently, staring straight ahead, as the judge set his bond at $10 million on two charges of first-degree murder.
“He’s never once showed any ill action or thought against the police, so it’s complete shock,” the 25-year-old woman said after the hearing, adding that she and her sister wanted to “express our deepest sympathy to the family of the lost and the officers themselves.”
Her father is charged in the deaths of Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Officer Justin Martin. Investigators said the officers were killed early Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars in separate attacks about 2 miles apart.