Milwaukee investigates after finding 5 dead in home
MILWAUKEE – Authorities in Wisconsin are investigating the deaths of five people found in a Milwaukee home, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s office said Sunday night.
At about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, Milwaukee Police responded to a welfare check at a residence where 4 men and one woman were found dead, said Milwaukee Assistant Sheriff Paul Formolo said in a press conference Sunday evening. The identities of the victims are being worked out.
“The citizens of our community have concerns with the people who reside there,” Formolo said. “It’s a normal call for us to respond to. We do it all the time.”
The motives and information regarding any suspects are unknown at this time, Formolo said. He added: “There is no information indicating a threat to the community.
“The murders discovered today in a neighborhood in our downtown are appalling,” Acting Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said in a statement Sunday night. “First of all, I would like to send my condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Regardless of the circumstances, we must share our grief with those who have lost loved ones.”
“It is important not to feel paralyzed by the violence taking place in our community,” the statement continued. “A terrible crime has happened again, and it is not a movie or a fictional account. These victims died in our city, in one of our neighborhoods. “
Johnson said efforts to reduce violence will continue and will be achieved through increased and improved law enforcement, community intervention and a renewed commitment to prevention.
“We can never accept homicidal violence as usual, and together we must fulfill our shared responsibility to find solutions and make our cities safer,” he said. .
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“This is ridiculous,” Arnitta Holliman, director of the Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention, said at the news conference. “I’m sorry, I don’t know a better word. The community is tired. We’re tired of seeing people’s lives destroyed too soon in preventable situations. This is completely preventable. Any gun violence that we” see again is preventable. And we cannot continue this trajectory that we have seen in the last two years. That means each of us has to step up, speak up, stand up, do something to change the course of what’s going on in our community. “
She says if you know someone who may be about to commit gun violence, stop them or reach out for help.
“We’re sick and tired of it,” she said. “And we as a community, that means all of us, have to get tired of it enough for us to step up and do something about it.”
The medical examiner’s office said it would conduct an autopsy on Monday.
“We hope that person gets caught or turns himself in,” Milwaukee activist Vaun Mayes said at the scene. some of this violence as much as possible. “
Follow a Twitter post from the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
Contribution: Associated Press