According to fox6news, A 13-year-old girl is dead, and her 10-year-old sister is hurt after someone shot them Sunday night, April 24 outside their home near 5th and Rogers. An 18-year-old man was also hurt.
Family members said Monday the 10-year-old will come home from the hospital soon. The shooting happened shortly after 9:30 Sunday night.
Neighbors, concerned for their safety, spoke with FOX6 News off-camera Monday. One said they heard gunshots and went outside to help Shanaria Wilson’s 10-year-old sister, shot multiple times. The neighbor said the girl wasn’t screaming, or crying. She was in shock.
Security camera video shows the moments prior to and after the shooting. The video is dark and hard to see, but two children can be seen in the video, appearing to be playing. The video then picks up after the shooting, with people huddling around the 13-year-old girl lying on the sidewalk.
“I came out because I thought it was just people shooting in the air,” said a neighbor. “We’re used to it. It happens all the time. I helped. I did everything I could.”
The neighbor said she performed CPR on Shanaria Wilson, who was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police say her 10-year-old sister had life-threatening wounds. Police expect the 18-year-old man shot will survive.
On Monday morning, many cops walked up and down the area. They said they wanted to be there for the community as well as find more information. But for some neighborhoods, trust is hard to come by.
“To me, they were just walking because, probably, they were sent the assignment to patrol the neighborhood, but they’re not going to do nothing,” said a neighbor told fox6news.
Stories like this seem to continue to happen in Milwaukee. Kids dying left and right. It sucks because we, as the community, we deserve answers but many times we don’t get them. The police haven’t found the suspect and that is heartbreaking.
The fact that this is the 6th kid to die due to violence in the city this year is heartbreaking. We hear about shootings and killings all the time but when it’s the kids, it hurts so much.
What can we do, as a community? How are we going to fix these issues? How can we develop a better Milwaukee with the little that we have? How can we serve and protect better, especially if we feel the job is not getting done. How can we lessen the violence and add more years to these young people’s lives?