Crime & Safety
Suspect, 2 Others Dead, 1 Hurt In Brown Deer Shooting: Reports
The Brown Deer apartment complex shooting started as a domestic dispute, reports say. Three adults are dead, and 1 injured, reports say.
BROWN DEER, WI — Three people, including the suspect, have died and one person is injured in a shooting Saturday an apartment complex in Brown Deer, according to reports.
The incident began as a domestic dispute and the suspect shot himself after shooting at police, WUWM 89.7 FM reported.
Brown Deer Police Chief Peter A. Nimmer said a suspect shot at officers from an apartment when they arrived at the complex on North Park Plaza Court, but no officers were hurt and none returned fire, CBS58 reported.
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Police found the suspect, a 26-year-old man, and two other adults dead when a tactical team went into the apartment, Fox6 reported.
Police have not identified the suspect or any of the victims. There was a child in the apartment but the child was not harmed, Spectrum News 1 reported.
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The standoff ended after 1 p.m. Eastern time.
A man identified as Larvell Huddleston was streaming a Facebook live video during the standoff and talking about shooting at police, Heavy.com reported. That report said police believe Huddleston was the shooter, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.
Huddleston, 26, has a pending charge of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit from October 2020. He is awaiting a jury trial set for March, according to Wisconsin court records.
There were armored vehicles at the scene near the apartment complex where the shooter was barricaded, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.t said. The man fired at police from a balcony as they arrived, the Heavy report said.
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