Man who shot at officers outside northwest Lincoln Casey’s gets decades in prison

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – The man who shot at officers outside a northwest Lincoln Casey’s was sentenced Thursday.

Michael Glaser, 45, got 26 to 34 years in prison for first-degree false imprisonment, terroristic threats, use of a firearm to commit a felony and resisting arrest with a deadly weapon.

Around 8:30 p.m. on April 2, Glaser walked into Casey’s at Northwest 12th Street and West Cornhusker Highway and set a gun on the counter.

The sheriff’s office said the incident was “domestic related” and not a robbery.

Glaser was separated from his wife, who works at the store, but the woman wasn’t working there that night.

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Glaser shot at the first officer who arrived, according to Police Chief Michon Morrow. That officer returned fire.

Two more officers and a Nebraska State Patrol trooper arrived shortly after and continued exchanging gunfire, officials said.

Two employees at the store barricaded themselves in a back room during the shootout.

Glaser was eventually shot in the upper chest before the SWAT team took him into custody.

No officers, customers or employees were injured.