OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The Omaha police chief says the department will discipline two officers who had contact with a man who was later arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting two people and wounding three more at an Omaha apartment.

Chief Todd Schmaderer (SHMAHD’-ur) said Wednesday that the two officers violated a department policy while checking the welfare of 22-year-old Destacia Straughn on Dec. 6. She and her 2-year-old daughter, Kenacia Amerson-Straughn, were shot to death late that night.

Schmaderer says the officers had contact earlier that evening with the man now charged with two counts of murder and nine more felonies: 23-year-old Dontevous (dawn’-TAYE’-vuhs) Loyd. They had removed him from the apartment but didn’t think they had sufficient cause to arrest him.

Schmaderer didn’t name the officers or specify which policy the officers violated.