Remind me again about the police killing young innocent black men. Per a previous story, an innocent kid is killed.
Via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A 1-year-old boy was killed Saturday night when someone fired several dozen shots from the street into a home on Milwaukee’s northwest side.
The boy was conscious and breathing after the shooting but later died at the hospital, police said.
“I am extremely saddened to report that the 13-month-old little boy who was shot in the 6400 block of N. 73rd St. has died of his injuries. This is now a homicide investigation,” Deputy Inspector Terrence Gordon said in a statement about 10:20 p.m.
The boy and his mother were visiting relatives in a duplex when shots were fired into the home just before 6:30 p.m., police said.
At the scene, Gordon said the child was the only person in the home struck by the gunfire.
He said it’s not clear whether the house was targeted or whether a shooting occurred on the street and the house was sprayed with bullets in the process.[…]
The shooting follows two other recent incidents in which a child was injured or killed when someone shot into a house.
Milwaukee police are still trying to identify suspects or a motive in the fatal shooting of Laylah Petersen. The 5-year-old was killed while sitting on her grandfather’s lap Nov. 6 after bullets were shot into a home near the corner of N. 58th St. and W. Fairmount Ave.
At the time, Mayor Tom Barrett said: “The whole city is grieving with the family.” He called Laylah’s death “an unspeakable tragedy.”
Another 5-year-old girl was struck by debris after gunshots were fired into two homes on Christmas night, Milwaukee police said.