Skip to main content
Global Edition
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Teenage girls found, neighborhood seeks peace

Credit: TODAY’S TMJ4
Duration: 02:03s 0 shares 1 views

Teenage girls found, neighborhood seeks peace
Teenage girls found, neighborhood seeks peace

Missing teen girls were never at home believed to be connected to sex trafficking, police say

THIS WHOLE CHAIN OF EVENTSCOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED - ANDMY HEART GOES OUT TO THEPEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THISCOMMUNITYWHAT STARTED WITH ASEARCH FOR TWO MISSING TEENAGEGIRLS... ENDED IN A NIGHT OFVIOLENCE AND ARSON ONMILWAUKEE'S NORTH SIDE.A HOME WAS BURNED.

MULTIPLEPEOPLE WERE SHOT.

POLICEOFFICERS ... AND AFIREFIGHTER... REPORTEDINJURIES AFTER THEY SAY ANANGRY CROWD THREW BRICKS ATTHEM.

WE'VE BEEN MONITORINGTHIS STORY SINCE IT BEGAN...TONY ATKINS JOINS US LIVE WITHWHAT WE KNOW AT THIS HOUR...A MUCH MORE QUIET SCENE THISMORNING.

CLEANUORGANIZERS CALLING IT "THEHEALING" AFTER YESTERDAY'SUNREST.THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT WAS THETARGET OF YESTERDAY'S UNREST.YESTERDAY'S WAS THE HOUSE THATTHIS IS THE HOUSE THAT WAS THETARGET OF YESTERDAY'S UNREST.PEOPLE IN THE AREA BELIEVETHIS HOME IS RELATED TO ANINVESTIGATION OF TWO MISSINGTEENAGERS.WE KNOW POLICE HAVEBEEN CALLED TO THIS HOME MORETHAN 30 TIMES IN THE PAST FEWYEARSWE WERE HERE AS THE VANON THAT PROPERTY WAS TOWEDAWAY THIS MORNING.CHIEFALFONSO MORALES SAID 7 POLICEOFFICERS AND ONE FIREFIGHTERWERE HURT AND AT LEAST THREEPEOPLE WERE SHOT BY CIVILIANSDURING THE UNREST THATUNFOLDED OUTSIDE THE HOME.ANDWHILE THE HOME WAS BURNING,POLICE SAY THE CROWD THREWBRICKS AT THEM .... ANDOFFICERS EVENTUALLY HAD TODEPLOY GAS AND RUBBER BULLETSAS THE UNREST WENT ON.

.<Cory Kirkwood , OrganizerRight now, we're doing acleanup.

This neighborhoodneeds to heal from whathappened yesterday."

You might like