WI - Homicide News

13 Jul 2015

Bloomer police investigating early morning shooting


BLOOMER, Wis. (WEAU) -- Bloomer police are investigating an early morning shooting that left one person with minor injuries. It happened Monday around 5 a.m. near the Bloomer Community Fairgrounds on 9th Avenue. 

13 Jul 2015

4 arrested after shots fired in Madison


MADISON, Wis. - Four men were arrested Sunday after police responded to a report of shots fired on the west side, according to a release from Madison police.

27 Jun 2015

Teen convicted of killing dad in Sheboygan


SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A judge has convicted a 19-year-old man accused of bludgeoning his father to death and hiding his body for nearly a week in their Sheboygan apartment.

27 Jun 2015

Caseworker says Burmese immigrant shot in fatal robbery


MILWAUKEE - A report says a Milwaukee man was helping prepare a traditional Burmese breakfast for a guest when his 11-year-old son walked into the room — with a stranger holding a gun against the boy's neck.

27 Jun 2015

Teen gets life in prison in great-uncles killing


ASHLAND, Wis. - An Ashland teenager is sentenced to life in prison in connection with the death of his great-uncle in 2013.

27 Jun 2015

Baby grilled: man gets 30 years in prison


MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A judge has sentenced a Milwaukee man to just over 30 years in prison for what she called the "absolute torture" of his baby girl.  

27 Jun 2015

Father of four fatally shot on Milwaukees west side


MILWAUKEE - Police are looking for more than one suspect connected to a murder on Milwaukee's west side. Family members said Jay Ro was shot and killed near 30th and Cherry streets as his family and four children looked on.

27 Jun 2015

Police investigate homicide in Milwaukee


MILWAUKEE — A man is dead and another is seriously injured after a double shooting Friday morning, June 26th near 82nd and Appleton Avenue. Right now, police are trying to piece together the moments leading up to the gunfire.

23 Jun 2015
23 Jun 2015

Madison woman gets 5 years in mans drug overdose death


UPDATED Tuesday, June 23, 2015---9:14 a.m. MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A 36-year-old Madison woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for her role in the 2014 death of a man from a drug overdose.

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