2 Men Killed In Apparent Homicide In South Milwaukee: Coroner

MILWAUKEE, WI — The Milwaukee County Coroner’s Office reported on Wednesday that two men have been killed on the city’s south side.

In a social media post, the coroner said that his office had responded to the 1900. Block of S. 19th St. and that autopsies of the two adults has have been scheduled for Thursday. A Milwaukee police spokesman told reporters that a 33-year-old man and a 34-year-old man, both of Milwaukee, were pronounced dead at the scene after the shooting was reported at 2:30 p.m.

Police said that they are still trying to determine what relationship, if any, the two victims had to one another. Medics attempted life-saving procedures at the scene, but both men were pronounced dead.

The deaths were the third and fourth shooting deaths in Milwaukee in less than 24 hours. Police said that they are investigating several leads but were not ready to release any details of what they had learned. The spokesman said that as temperatures rise in the summer, so do the number of calls involving violent crimes the department receives.

There have been 83 homicides in Milwaukee between Jan. 1 and June 30

"Anytime a life is lost in the city of Milwaukee its a tragedy," Milwaukee police Capt. David Salazar told reporters on Wednesday. "The (police) men and women behind me are going to work as diligently as possible to find justice for their families as we're doing for the other victims from last night."