By Associated Press - Friday, November 4, 2016

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Latest on two police officers in the Des Moines area who were killed in what authorities describe as ambush-style attacks (all times local):

2:10 p.m.

A national charity says it will donate funds to help the families of the two police officers fatally shot in Iowa in ambush-style attacks this week.

The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation announced Friday that it would help the families of Des Moines Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale Officer Justin Martin.

The foundation also said it would pay off the mortgage on Beminio’s home.

The suspect in the attacks, Scott Greene, was ordered held on $10 million bond on Friday. He’s been charged with first-degree murder.

Police have asked that donations be made to the Des Moines Police Officers’ Credit Union. CEO Andy Fogle says the credit union has received more than 800 online donations so far.

Iowa-based grocery store chain Hy-Vee has pledged $25,000 to each officer’s family.

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11:45 a.m.

A daughter of a man charged with murder in the shooting death of two Iowa police officers says she’s in shock that her father might have done such a thing.

Samantha Greene says she talked by phone with her father, Scott Michael Greene, just two hours before police say he fatally shot Des Moines Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale officer Justin Martin.

Police say the officers were killed in separate ambush-style attacks while sitting in their patrol cars early Wednesday morning.

Samantha Greene says she had a normal conversation with her father around 11 p.m. Tuesday. The 25-year-old says her dad has been upset at losing his father to cancer and the breakup of a relationship, but that he showed no unusual signs of anger.

She spoke outside the Polk County Jail after watching her father’s first appearance before a judge. She said he had the “deepest sympathy” for the officers’ families. She says her father has never expressed “any ill action or thought against the police, so it’s a complete shock.”

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9:50 a.m.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has ordered U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff to honor two police officers who were killed in what authorities have described as ambush-style attacks.

The order will last from sunrise on Monday to sunset on Tuesday.

Des Moines Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale officer Justin Martin were shot to death early Wednesday while sitting in their patrol cars. Scott Michael Greene has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the shootings.

Services are scheduled for Monday for Beminio and Tuesday for Martin.

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8:50 a.m.

A judge has set the bond at $10 million for a man charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two police officers in Iowa.

Judge William Price set the bond for 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene during Greene’s first court appearance on Friday.

Green was apprehended Wednesday, hours after Des Moines Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale officer Justin Martin were killed. Both officers were shot in ambush-style attacks while sitting in their cars in separate locations.

If convicted, Green would receive an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole. His next hearing is set for Nov. 14.

Greene appeared in pink jail inmate clothing at the hearing, staring straight ahead without saying anything. The hearing took less than a minute in the Polk County Jail, which has a small courtroom.

Greene was released from a hospital Thursday, and he was arrested later in the day after detectives questioned him at the Des Moines police station.

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7:45 a.m.

A funeral has been scheduled for the second Iowa police officer who was fatally shot in an ambush-style attack while sitting in his police vehicle.

Des Moines police said Friday that a visitation for Sgt. Anthony Beminio will be held Sunday afternoon in West Des Moines. His funeral is set for Monday morning.

The 38-year-old Beminio was killed about 20 minutes after 24-year-old Urbandale Officer Justin Martin was fatally shot less than 2 miles away.

Martin’s funeral is scheduled for Tuesday in his hometown of Rockwell City.

The suspect, 46-year-old Scott Michael Greene, was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder.

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12:25 a.m.

An Iowa man charged in the killings of two police officers was facing intense money problems, had been found by a judge to hit and financially exploit his mother and was ordered to move out of her basement hours before the shootings.

Forty-six-year-old Scott Michael Greene was arrested Thursday afternoon after detectives questioned him at the Des Moines police station. Greene was secured with the handcuffs that had belonged to the patrolmen who were killed in ambush-style attacks, Des Moines Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Urbandale officer Justin Martin, and was later booked into the county jail.

Greene was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, he would receive an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole.

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