Aurora Police Chief Shares Message After Milwaukee Shooting

AURORA, IL — It seems like only yesterday that Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman was commemorating the one-year anniversary of the deadly shooting on Feb. 15, 2019, at Henry Pratt Manufacturing. Now the chief is sharing a message of solidarity with the families and friends of victims who were fatally shot at Molson Coors Brewing in Milwaukee Wednesday.

Ziman, who has responded publicly to many mass shootings in the wake of the Henry Pratt tragedy, wrote that"When the news [of the Milwaukee shooting] broke, I felt a pit in my stomach." She went on to say,"That feeling has become familiar to me because I experienced it when I heard the mass shooting call go out in my own city just over a year ago and I continue to feel it for every similar act of violence."

Ziman continued,

"My deepest condolences go out to the families and friends of those who were senselessly gunned down in a place they should have been safe. Like the five killed in our city, these human beings simply went to work and never made it home.

There are more facts to learn about the shooter and the gun he used to erase these lives. As the details unfold, my hope is that we put action behind thoughts and prayers.
In the meantime, we in Aurora sit with Milwaukee in grief and suffering."

Five people were gunned down at the Molson Coors Beverage Co. Wednesday by a 51-year-old man identified as a former employee who had just been fired. The Feb. 15 shooting at Henry Pratt Manufacturing also claimed the lives of five coworkers, along with the gunman who opened fire after he learned he was being terminated.