According to WISN12, 6 people were found dead in a Milwaukee home.
Police were called about 3:45 p.m. Sunday afternoon to a home near North 21st and West Wright streets for a welfare check. When officers arrived, they said they found four men and a woman dead.
But then overnight Monday the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office tweeted that an additional adult male homicide victim had been found in the home. That brings the total number of victims to five men and one woman.
It’s not clear how long they were dead when their bodies were found.
Autopsies were scheduled for Monday. The deaths were being investigated as homicides. It’s not clear how old the victims were or how they may have died. Their names were not released. Police have not made any arrests or said how the victims were related.
No suspect information was released.
Investigators were still at the scene collecting evidence. So far, a weapon has not been recovered.
“The murders discovered today on a residential block in the heart of our city are horrific,” Acting Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson said in a statement. “First, I offer my condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Whatever the circumstances, we must share the grief of those who have lost loved ones.
“It is important not to feel numbed by the ongoing violence in our community. A horrible crime has again occurred, and it is not a movie or a fictional account. These victims died in our city, in one of our neighborhoods.
“We remain steadfast in our efforts to reduce violence. We will achieve that through strengthened and improved law enforcement, through community intervention, and through a renewed commitment to prevention. Again, we can never accept murderous violence as routine, and we must together recommit ourselves to our shared responsibility to find solutions and make our city safer.”
Anyone with information on the homicides was asked to call Milwaukee police or Crimestoppers.
No other details were immediately available.
The story is extremely sad. It’s sickening to see so many people die left and right. It’s sickening to know people have information and won’t give it. It’s disgusting to see our community in such a terrible state of mind.
To know 6 people lost their lives this morning and no one has a clue of what happened.
Praying for Milwaukee non-stop. We have to do something.