MILWAUKEE – One person is dead after a multi-county police chase side reaching speeds over 100 miles per hour ends with a Milwaukee County Sheriff’s deputy firing shots on Milwaukee’s northwest side.
The incident started as a child abuse investigation in Slinger, where Slinger Police Department were in search of a man who was facing criminal charges of alleged domestic violence, exposing himself to a minor, child abuse, and disorderly conduct. The suspect then fled police in a blue minivan and led Germantown officers on a chase ending in Milwaukee at 107th and Good Hope.
The suspect then fled on foot, before authorities say he threatened “suicide-by-police”. The suspect was approached by officers from multiple agencies, including the sheriff’s department, and engaged the officers, before the deputy fired multiple rounds, striking and wounding the man. Lifesaving measures were performed on the suspect, but he died at the scene, where a knife was found.
Brookfield Police are leading the investigation.
The deputy sheriff who fired the shots, a seven-and-a-half-year veteran of MCSO, has been placed on administrative
leave, pending the outcome of the investigation.
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