Milwaukee shooting of 1-year-old; dashcam of arrest released
Dashcam video of Davon Chapman arrest in Kenosha County
Davon Chapman was arrested on I-94 in Kenosha County during a high-risk traffic stop.
MILWAUKEE - The Kenosha County Sheriff's Department on Monday, June 12 released footage showing the arrest of Davon Chapman. Chapman is charged connection with the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old child outside Atkinson Library in Milwaukee on June 3.
Chapman was arrested on Interstate 94 in Kenosha County the next day. It all unfolded during a high-risk traffic stop.
Davon Chapman
Chapman faces the following criminal counts:
- First-degree reckless homicide
- Possession of a firearm by a felon
Details of the case
According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukeee police responded to a ShotSpotter alert that identified the sound of 11 gunshots near 19th and Atkinson on the evening of Saturday, June 3.
Another officer responded to a fire station not far from the shooting scene -- and learned a 1-year-old child, later identified as Zy'Aire Nevels, was shot and had been taken to Children's Wisconsin.
Davon Chapman
"She fought all the way to the hospital, fought," said Montrell Nevels, Zy'Aire's father. "Literally a whole life ahead of her."
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Nevels later died.
Officers on the scene of the shooting located eight 9mm bullet casings in the street in front of Atkinson Library. This is close to the ShotSpotter alert.
A detective spoke with the mother of Nevels. She said the 1-year-old was in a car seat just behind the driver, his father.
Zy'Aire Nevels
The woman's 3-year-old was in a car seat behind her. As they left their home, the complaint says "a white Impala began following and then chasing them."
"We sped up, they sped up. We went around cars, they went around cars," said Zhane Brown, Zy'Aire's mother.
The mother said she could see the defendant driving -- and stated that Chapman was her best friend's husband, and that she had been talking to the defendant.
The complaint says Nevels' father described being chased by the Impala -- even through red lights. He was "watching the rearview mirror as they crossed West Capitol Drive and saw muzzle flashes and heard gunfire," the complaint says.
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"We were trying to get away, and that when he let the shots off," Brown said.
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Zy'Aire's father then drove to the nearby fire station. The child had been shot in the arm and head – and would not survive.
A detective spoke with the defendant's mother. She said she spoke with the defendant on the phone and "he was crying and told her 'I killed a kid. I got kids I wasn't trying to do that,'" the complaint says. Later that night, the defendant texted his mother a news article about the 1-year-old child and said, "Ma, I messed up," the complaint says.