Two more men plead guilty in mass shooting after Bucks playoff game
Two more suspects have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a mass shooting last May after a Milwaukee Bucks playoff game.
Lemont Siller, 21, and Alexus Jackson-Milton, 21, each had most of their charges dismissed as part of plea deals, according to court records. A total of 17 people, ranging in age from 15 to 47, were shot and injured that night.
Siller pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery with intent to harm using a dangerous weapon and four counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon as party to a crime. He was initially charged with 11 additional counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, including one count involving injury to an unborn child.
He is scheduled to be sentenced May 30.
Jackson-Milton pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery with intent to harm using a dangerous weapon.
He was initially charged with 15 additional counts of first-degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon as party to a crime. Those charges were dismissed.
He had been scheduled to go to trial next week. A sentencing hearing for Jackson-Milton is now scheduled for May 11.
The guilty pleas means cases against three of the five people connected to the shootings have been disposed of.
Christopher Murry, 24, pleaded guilty in November to three counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety using a dangerous weapon. He was sentenced in January to 30 years in prison.
Cases involving two other suspects, Marquise Jackson and Terrell Milton, have not concluded.
Jackson, 25, is set for a scheduling conference on April 20. Milton, 24, has a status conference Monday. Each is charged with one count of aggravated battery with intent to harm using a dangerous weapon and 15 counts of first-degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon as party to a crime.
At least four other unknown people also opened fire during the incident, according to court records. No other arrests have been made.
What happened?
A man was standing outside Grohmann Tower, 233 E. Juneau Ave. shortly after 11 p.m. on May 13.
According to surveillance camera footage described in court records, two groups of people appeared to converge and take up positions around the man - one coming from the east, the other from the west.
Police later learned one of the suspects had a longstanding feud with the man, who they came to believe was the intended target in the attack.
Milton was part of the group walking east. Included in that group was Siller and Jackson-Milton, who was the first to pull out a gun while facing the man, records said.
An unknown person who was with the intended target then pulled out a gun and fired shots. Siller, Jackson, Milton, Murry and Jackson-Milton all returned fire, records said.
Milton was seen in surveillance camera footage running east on Juneau Avenue while firing shots. He at one point tripped over a median, but resumed firing after getting up, records said. He was identified to police by the intended target.
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