MILWAUKEE (AP) — Seven people were shot and wounded Wednesday in an apparent drive-by shooting outside a Milwaukee funeral home, the city’s mayor said.
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Mayor Tom Barrett said all seven people were hit when a person driving past the funeral home opened fire. Acting Police Chief Michael Brunson said all of the injured are expected to survive and were in stable condition Wednesday at a local hospital.
The victims included men and women, ranging in age from 20 to 48 years old, Brunson said. He said police were still looking for a suspect and he asked for the public’s help in identifying the shooter.
“This is an untenable situation. This brazen act done in broad daylight is just unacceptable in our city,” Brunson said.
Barrett called the shooting “an example of the insanity we’re seeing” with the number of guns on Milwaukee streets.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that a car pulled up to a crowd of around 100 mourners outside Serenity Funeral Home at about 12:45 p.m. Cedric Guy, the funeral home’s owner, said mourners were gathered for the funeral of Braxton Taylor, the 26-year-old victim of a Sept. 17 shooting.
Taylor’s funeral was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. but was postponed after the shooting. It was not immediately known if the shooting was connected to the funeral.
WISN-TV reported that a hearse outside the funeral home appeared to have bullet holes in it, and the windows were shot out.
how come there was no protests in Milwaukee today over the shooting. How come none of the sports teams boycotted their games to protest the shooting? Do Black Lives Matter or do they not? We should stop letting politicians get away with scapegoating cops because they can’t look in the mirror themselves!
Well, I guess people are just dying to get in.
Animals (and I am sorry to insult actual chayot that don’t kill their own for no reason)
A funeral of a gang member is an ideal place to shoot other gang members who have gathered for the funeral as we saw in Brooklyn around a year ago. I remember President Trump saying that he would end all crime as soon as he took office.