Man arrested in funeral home shooting that injured 7
MILWAUKEE - A 29-year-old man was arrested in connection to the shooting outside that northside funeral parlor Wednesday, Sept. 30, Milwaukee police confirmed Monday, Oct. 5.
After two handfuls of bullets hit Serenity Funeral Home, shattered glass from a limousine's windows lay strewn about.
Shooting near Fond du Lac and Townsend, Milwaukee
Seven people were shot while gathering to remember a 26-year-old man, Braxton Taylor, who was shot and killed in mid-September near 35th and Park Hill.
Thankfully, all are expected to recover.
"I was really worried about the safety of my grandmother. She was sitting in the front room, and so I was worried, very worried," Autumn Carter-Morris said.
Carter-Morris lives across the street and came home not long after the shooting happened near Fond du Lac Avenue and Townsend Street.
"I feel so bad for the family. It's a home-going celebration. You never want that to happen at your home-going celebration," she said.
The 20-year-old hotel employee knows the pain of grief, losing a friend, 22-year-old Deon Spivey, in a fatal crash near 48th and Keefe in early September. She wears a button of Spivey on her shirt.
"So to see gun violence claim a life, and mourners on the other end of a gun barrel, reportedly because of an ongoing feud — it was really uncalled for," she said.
It left Carter-Morris at a loss for words.
"With how everything is unfolding is so much crime, and it's just crazy, and for it to be seven other people, as well, to get injured is absolutely mind-blowing. It's heartbreaking," she said.
While she says there's some sort of solace in knowing police have someone in custody in connection to the mass shooting, she says it's heartbreaking, as well, understanding that the alleged actions of the suspect now changing the trajectory of their own life.
The shooting victims — men and women — range in age from 20 to 48.
Police say charges for the 29-year-old suspect will be referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the coming days.
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This shooting happened just over a week after the Milwaukee County medical examiner said the county is on track to surpass 200 homicides in 2020 -- something that's never happened before.
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