Page 24 - The Guardians - MPD Summer 2020 Newsletter

Milwaukee family impacted

by a quintuple homicide

Featuring: Sgt. Erin Mejia, Milwaukee Police Department

“Before the call came in I was what the caller is saying could
O n Monday, April 27, 2020 the doing administrative work,” actually be true,” added Sgt.

explained Sgt. Erin Mejia who Mejia. "You always hope that
Milwaukee Police Department
was the commanding officer at it's not real."
received a call for police services
the scene. "We quickly started
on the 2800 block of North 12th
getting ready to go to the scene Investigators believe these
Street from a citizen who stated
when the caller said he had homicides could have been a
his family was dead inside their
killed everybody. He told us he result of a domestic violence
home.
was feeling very anxious and he situation. Sgt. Mejia went into
was going to kill his grandchild the home and describes what
Once MPD officers arrived at the
as well." she witnessed as heartbreaking.
scene, they discovered five
victims dead from gunshot
Four of the five victims killed “Once we entered the home we
wounds on the second level of a
teenagers, and the fifth victim went upstairs and it was
duplex home. A 43-year-old
was identified as a 41-year-old determined that there were no
Milwaukee man identified as
Milwaukee woman who was a lifesaving measures we could
Christopher P. Stokes was
mother of one of the teenage take to preserve life for the
immediately taken into police
victims. The grandchild was not victims. It became crucial for
custody at the scene after
harmed and was rescued inside us to think rationally and to
admitting to MPD he was the
the home. preserve evidence so we can
shooter. Stokes was later
bring justice to the family or
identified as the person who called
“It’s scary to think that when families impacted,” said Sgt.
dispatch to report the incident.
you get to a scene like that, Mejia.

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