The deadly holiday weekend violence that broke out Friday night with the killing of a 14-year-old colored boy shortly after Milwaukee's lakefront fireworks escalated dramatically on Saturday with three more homicides in five shootings in the city.
All of the Fourth of July homicides and shootings occurred late in the afternoon or Saturday night, Milwaukee police said in a news release early Sunday, and one of the killings apparently happened a block away from Mitchell Park shortly after Saturday night's fireworks there.
■ The first shooting occurred around 4:45 p.m. in the 5100 block of N. 76th St. Officers responded to reports of shots fired and found a 20-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound. He died later at a hospital. A motive isn't known.
■ A 22-year-old man is expected to survive after being shot around 5:10 p.m. in the 3100 block of N. 12th St. He had been attacked by two people who had approached him on the street.
■ Three more shootings occurred within a half hour of each other Saturday night. At about 10:50 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot while walking in the 4100 block of W. Vliet St. He was able to take himself to a hospital for treatment.
■ At nearly the same time, a 23-year-old man was found shot on S. 22 St. just a block south of Mitchell Park and died at the scene. The circumstances of the shooting aren't clear, police said, but officers were seen Sunday morning investigating at a house a block west of the shooting. A man was taken away in an unmarked squad car just before 9 a.m., but it wasn't immediately clear if he was tied to the shooting.
■ Then around 11:15 p.m., outside a large house party in the 8100 block of W. Glen St., gunfire broke out that left a 31-year-old man dead.
Police had not reported any suspects identified or arrested as of early Sunday.
The three homicides bring the city's toll for the year to 80.
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