Man Charged After Fatal Shooting Of Greenfield Man: Complaint

MILWAUKEE, WI — A Milwaukee man has been accused of homicide in connection with the fatal March 15 shooting of a Greenfield man near Capitol Drive and North 79th Street, a criminal complaint and reports show.

Donvonta R Pearson, 28, was charged Wednesday in Milwaukee County Court with first-degree reckless homicide and felon in possession of a firearm in connection with the shooting, according to a criminal complaint and online court records.

If convicted, Pearson faces up to 60 years in prison for the homicide charge, and up to 10 years in prison and $25,000 in fines for the felon in possession of a firearm charge.

Police say in the criminal complaint two officers were stopped near 79th and Capitol around 2:50 a.m. the day of the shooting when they heard multiple gunshots and saw a sedan speed by heading south down 79th Street.

Police drove up 79th Street, where they found a van stopped with one wheel on the curb and a man inside who was shot multiple times, the complaint says. The man was died within minutes of the shooting, the complaint says.

Reports have since identified the victim as 41-year-old Gregory Fabian.

The sedan that had sped by police was briefly stopped door-to-door with the victim's van, minutes before police found the victim, surveillance video from a nearby business showed according to the complaint.

Police identified the suspect vehicle, which traced back to someone associated with Pearson, the complaint says.

Police went to Pearson's address on March 19 and found him near a concealed gun and keys that were the same vehicle make as the one they saw speed by the day of the shooting, according to the complaint. Police arrested Pearson.

Pearson told police at first during interviews the person responsible for the shooting was someone else, but when police looked into the person Pearson had accused, evidence showed he was at work at the time of the shooting, the complaint says.

When police confronted Pearson with evidence the person he had earlier accused of the shooting had an alibi, Pearson told detectives the victim had tried to snatch three grams of crack cocaine from him without paying when they were parked next to eachother, the complaint says.

Pearson told police that after the victim tried to grab the drugs, he stuck a gun out of his car window and shot twice before grabbing the drugs from the street and driving away, the criminal complaint says.