Police in Wisconsin have arrested a 15-year-old boy for a shooting at a mall that wounded eight people on Friday, Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber said at a news conference on Sunday. The teen left the mall as shoppers and employees evacuated, Weber said. He was arrested Saturday night when police pulled over his vehicle, …
Investigators probing a shooting that wounded eight at a Wisconsin mall on Friday say they believe the shooting was sparked by a fight, the Wauwatosa Police Department says. “Preliminary investigation has led us to believe that this shooting was not a random act, and was the result of an altercation,” the department said in a …
At least eight people were wounded Friday afternoon when an unknown gunman opened fire at a Wisconsin mall, prompting shoppers and store employees to run for cover, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. Witnesses described the shooter as a white man in his 20s or 30s, Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber told reporters, and officers are still …
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with allowing her adult, at-risk son to die on their bathroom floor after he fell out of his wheelchair and broke several bones, the Journal Times reports. Cheryl Christensen, 60, reportedly dragged her 46-year-old son to the bathroom and left him there for days after the fall. She told …
Months after a young girl was hit while waiting to board a school bus, authorities have arrested a Wisconsin man and charged him with homicide. Wisconsin Daily Rapids Journal reports that Carl L. Mullenix, 76, faced a judge Tuesday at the Waushara County Circuit Court, in connection with the death of 6-year-old Maryana Kranz. According …
A judge Friday morning ordered the extradition of Kyle Rittenhouse, and the Illinois teenager accused of killing two people at a protest in Kenosha is already in jail in Wisconsin, TMJ4 reports. Rittenhouse, 17, travelled from his home in Illinois on August 25 because of protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who was …
Wisconsin police have arrested two men in connection with Wednesday’s hit-and-run that left a 7-year-old girl dead and her mother seriously injured. WISN reported that the two unidentified men, ages 22 and 19, were taken into custody as persons of interest. A car was reportedly racing when it struck the car Londyn Quesada and her …
A new syndicated series from CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace debuts next month, focusing on how new technologies — DNA profiling, genetic genealogy, and familial searches — are helping bring closure to cold cases. “Bloodline Detectives” debuts on October 2. Its second episode, “Murder in the Snow,” takes on the 1984 murder of Wisconsin teenager Traci Hammerberg, …
One of two Wisconsin girls convicted of nearly stabbing a classmate to death to appease the fictional horror character “Slender Man” in 2014 asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to toss out her conviction in adult court, the Associated Press reported. Morgan Geyser, now 18, pleaded guilty to attempted first degree homicide in 2017 …
A Wisconsin man has been charged with killing his girlfriend just hours after she told her sister she had broken up with him, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. Menomonee Falls police were called to the victim’s apartment shortly before midnight by Hasani Monroe, 20, who told them the victim “picked up a knife and stabbed me,” …
Jacob Blake, the man whose shooting by police last month sparked another round of nationwide protests against police brutality, appeared in court from his hospital bed on Friday, entering several not guilty pleas on charges stemming from a domestic incident in May. Blake, who is paralyzed from the waist down from the August 23 shooting …
A Wisconsin man is accused of fatally shooting his neighbor — a community service officer — during a dispute Monday over grass clippings. The Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement that a 65-year-old suspect was taken into custody shortly after Naeem Sarosh’s shooting death. A neighbor told WMTJ that they overheard men arguing before …
