A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Darrell Brooks, charged with intentionally driving into the Waukesha Christmas parade in 2021, is competent to represent himself when his trial begin with jury selection on Monday.
The man charged in a deadly stabbing spree during a Wisconsin river tubing venture on Saturday told officers after his arrest that he was “attacked” and “in self-defense mode” when he stabbed a 17-year-old boy to death and seriously injured four other people. Nicolae Miu, 52, made his first court appearance on Monday, when he …
An angry Wisconsin man fired indiscriminately a home this week, striking his 5-year-old niece in the chest and damaging her spine. At John Jackson’s bond hearing on Saturday, prosecutors said Ke’yari Redding may never walk again. The little girl’s mother, Asia Jackson, told WITI that her daughter is making progress although she remains in critical …
Tubing on Wisconsin’s Apple River remained shut down Sunday as detectives investigated a 52-year-old man’s fatal stabbing spree on Saturday. A 17-year-old boy was killed in the attack and four other people — three men and a woman, all in their 20s — were seriously injured. St Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said that formal …
Update: 8:45 p.m.: St Croix Sheriff Scott Knudson said at least two victims were airlifted to Regions Hospital and the other were transported by ambulance. The 17-year-old was taken by ambulance to Lakeview Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to KMSP. Original story: A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed and four others seriously hurt …
Police and fire officials are investigating after a “suspicious” fire left one person dead in Chippewa Fall, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. Investigators did not release the identity of the victim but named Scott Vaningan, 58, as a suspect in both the fire and death, WEAU reported. Vaningan lived in the house that caught fire, police said, …
A Wisconsin state senator was involved in a fatal car crash on Friday that left a mother and her 5-year-old daughter dead. The Ashland Daily Press said that Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley, 70, pulled out of a parking lot onto Highway 2 and into the path of a car driven by 27-year-old Alyssa Ortman. …
A 25-year-old Wisconsin man has been arrested and charged with the shooting death on Monday of the mother of his children. Wilson Medina Cruz is charged with first degree intentional homicide with the use of a dangerous weapon in the death of Ninoshka Maestre Lozada. West Allis police said Cruz was arrested at a hotel. …
A Wisconsin woman accused of strangling a lover and then dismembering his body earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday. Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault when she was arrested on February 23, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police say Schabusiness told them …
The suspect, Douglas K. Uhde, is still in critical condition from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The suspect reportedly had a hit list that included Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and may be a militia member.
Emily Rogers’s ex-boyfriend has been charged with her death last month — on the day he got out of jail in connection with a misdemeanor hit-and-run case. Rogers, 23, was found dead on May 5 near a retention pond in a Milwaukee suburb, nine days after she was last seen at her Milwaukee home, as …
