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Police presence at Waukesha funeral home; employees found open door
WAUKESHA, Wis. - Waukesha police responded to the Cesarz Charapala & Zinnecker Funeral Home on N. Moreland on Wednesday, July 3 to conduct an investigation. Police tell FOX6 News that employees came to work and found an open door. The workers believed they heard a noise coming from inside. Law...
New video shows security guards restraining struggling man who later died, family and witnesses speak out
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- New video shows security guards at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee hotel restraining a man Sunday afternoon, June 30, then hitting him. Dvontaye Mitchell eventually became unresponsive and later died. The Medical Examiner's office said the preliminary manner of death was homicide, meaning it was caused by...
Fatal Milwaukee shooting, 54th and Meinecke, woman charged
MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee woman has been criminally charged in connection to a fatal shooting that occurred Friday, June 28 near 54th and Meinecke in Milwaukee. The accused, 30-year-old Talina Weddle, walked into a Milwaukee Police District building and turned herself in. Weddle is facing one count of homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon.
Nine arrested in incident at Southridge that forced mall, carnival to close early Saturday
Nine people were arrested Saturday during a chaotic situation near Southridge Mall where a carnival was taking place, according to the Greendale Police Department. The disturbance resulted in the carnival shutting down and the mall closing early. Between 3 and 10 p.m., Greendale police responded to multiple calls for service...
Milwaukee mayor calls for stricter gun laws after spate of shootings in city
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson is again calling on the state Legislature to pass stricter gun laws after the city experienced a violent week. At least 15 people were shot in Milwaukee on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the latest media update from the Milwaukee Police Department. A 25-year-old was also fatally shot on Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday a 1-year-old was injured in a shooting.
Body recovered from water near McKinley Marina in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE - Investigators recovered on Monday, July 1 the body of a 43-year-old man from the water near McKinley Marina in Milwaukee. FOX6 News talked with a man who said the person was pulled out from an area near the breakwall around 1 p.m. The man said he was walking on the pier when two fishermen saw the body and called 911.
Milwaukee-area police who joined Oath Keepers resigned jobs after The Badger Project investigation
Three of the four Milwaukee-area police officers revealed by The Badger Project to have joined the anti-government group the Oath Keepers resigned from their law enforcement positions soon after the stories were published. Two have left law enforcement. The third took a job with a different law enforcement agency. A...
11 people injured when escalator malfunctions in Milwaukee ballpark
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A spokesman for the Milwaukee Brewers said Sunday the team “was in the process of reaching out” to the 11 people injured after an American Family Field escalator malfunctioned. Tyler Barnes, the senior vice president of communications and affiliate operations for the Brewers, said...
Washington Park fatal shooting, Milwaukee man gets life in prison
MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man convicted of shooting and killing a man at Washington Park was sentenced to life in prison. Triston Brown, 20, pleaded guilty in February to first-degree intentional homicide. A charge of strangulation and suffocation was dismissed as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Naquan Henry...
'We're watching somebody getting killed': Civil rights attorney wants criminal charges in death investigation involving hotel security guards
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A Milwaukee civil rights attorney says criminal charges should be filed in the death of Dvontaye Mitchell, the man who died Sunday afternoon, June 30, after he was restrained by four security guards outside the downtown Hyatt Regency hotel. Hyatt ignored our questions, both about this...
Former Milwaukee city employee who embezzled more than $100,000 sentenced to probation
Kyle Hepp, one of two former Milwaukee Department of Public Works employees who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $100,000 from the city, was sentenced Tuesday to six months home confinement and four years of probation. Hepp and his colleague Kelly Whitmore-Behling each pleaded guilty in March to federal charges of conspiracy to commit theft from a federally funded program and theft from a federally funded program. ...
State funding issues kept youth charged in fatal beating at Lincoln Hills
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Search continues for teen gunman accused of killing two St. Anthony High students
Milwaukee police are searching for a teen who they say shot and killed two St. Anthony High School students last month on the city's south side. Prosecutors have filed two counts of first-degree intentional homicide against Moses Martinez in the shooting deaths of Diego Herrera-Mejia, 16, and Isaac Rodriguez, 15. He also faces a charge of first-degree reckless endangering safety. ...
Milwaukee Medical Examiner's Office identifies man found dead outside Hyatt Regency hotel
The homeless man who died Sunday afternoon in the entrance of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Milwaukee has been identified as Dvontaye L. Mitchell. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office released the 43-year-old man's identify Monday and determined the preliminary cause of this death as homicide. Attempts to reach his family were not...
Milwaukee shooting Wednesday, 27th and Clybourn; 1 injured
MILWAUKEE - A 29-year-old was shot inside a vehicle in Milwaukee on Wednesday, July 3. The Milwaukee Police Department said the shooting happened around 3:22 p.m. near 27th and Clybourn. The victim was in a vehicle when people in another vehicle fired shots, subsequently striking the victim. The 29-year-old was...
Man accused of stealing car from Kwik Trip with two kids in backseat accepts plea deal
OAK CREEK, Wis. — One of the men accused of stealing a car with two young girls in the backseat from an Oak Creek Kwik Trip accepted a plea deal Wednesday. Investigators say Bedee Usama is one of three men who stole the car in February and then drove off with the children in the backseat.
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