Kenosha police shooting, bar homicide suspect shot, arrested
Kenosha police shooting, bar homicide suspect arrested
Kenosha police said a man suspected of fatally shooting a victim inside a bar fled the scene and exchanged gunfire with responding officers, who shot him and took him into custody Sunday night.
KENOSHA, Wis. - Kenosha police released new details following a fatal tavern shooting that escalated into a shootout.
Bar shooting
Timeline:
Around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night, police arrived at Shenanigans, a bar near 52nd and 25th in Kenosha, for a report of shots fired.
They found a 33-year-old man inside the bar with multiple gunshot wounds which he later died from.
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Police confirmed the victim is Antero Medina III. Neighbors said he was a father of three.
Police also said the suspect and the victim are not believed to have known each other.
Suspect information
Dig deeper:
Kenosha police say the suspect is Adam Threlkeld, a 45-year-old man from Milwaukee, who has a long criminal history in Milwaukee, including sexual assault, strangulation, suffocation, exposing himself to a child, battery, disorderly conduct, vehicle theft and burglary.
Most recently, he was arrested in Milwaukee in connection with an allegation of battering a police officer while armed with a knife.
The suspect on the ground
Police were not able to state why Threlkeld, with his criminal history, was out in Kenosha.
Threlkeld shot at police when they found him less than a block away from the tavern. But he only hit the squad car and no police were injured.
Police shot back at the suspect, hitting him and that is when police were able to arrest him.
A neighbor whose house is only a couple dozen feet from where this suspect was arrested, Stephanie Rediske, ducked for cover when she said she heard around 20 gunshots during the incident.
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What they're saying:
"And then before I even had time to react, there were two shots and then just a barrage of shots," Rediske said. "It was just pop, pop, pop, pop, and it was just so many, so rapidly. And that part was terrifying too because I'm down on the ground, so I don't even know where they're coming from."
The suspect is still at the medical facility he was brought to after the incident, where he is in stable condition.
Both the shooting in the bar and the officer-involved shooting continue to be investigated.
Portions of this article were formatted using A.I. FOX6’s Ben Hanson and an editor reviewed it for accuracy and tone prior to publishing.
The Source: FOX6 News went to the scene Sunday night and Monday morning and reached out to the Kenosha Police Department.