Person fatally shot by police near Republican National Convention venue

THAT TWO PEOPLE WERE SHOT. SO DEREK, VERY EMOTIONAL OUT HERE AS PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO, YOU KNOW, HEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW, SHE SAYS. IT’S LIKE A COMMUNITY BACK HERE. THERE’S A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS AND THEY LIVE TOGETHER. SO SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY UPSET THAT SOMEONE WHO SHE IS SO CLOSE WITH, SHE BELIEVES NOW IS DEAD. ALL RIGHT. KENDALL KEYS AT 13TH AND VLIET FOREST. UH, I JUST WANT TO RESET FOR A MOMENT TO BRING OUR VIEWERS UP TO SPEED. IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US HERE AT 217 HERE IN MILWAUKEE, WE ARE INTERRUPTING PROGRAMING RIGHT NOW TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON A POLICE SHOOTING. WHAT APPEARS TO BE A DEADLY POLICE SHOOTING IN MILWAUKEE AT 14TH. INVALID. THIS IS ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF NORTHWEST OF FISERV FORUM, THE SITE OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. WE JUST GOT WORD A FEW MOMENTS AGO FROM THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, INDICATING THAT IT IS A GROUP OF THEIR OFFICERS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THIS POLICE SHOOTING HERE THIS AFTERNOON. THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF WHICH WE ARE ONLY GETTING INFORMATION, AT LEAST FROM TWO WITNESSES SO FAR, THAT OUR NICK BOHR HAS SPOKEN TO, SAYING THAT THERE WERE TWO GENTLEMEN WHO HAD SOME SORT OF FIGHT OR CONFRONTATION WITH ONE ANOTHER. ONE OF THEM HAD A GUN. ACCORDING TO THESE WITNESSES, POLICE OFFICERS GOT TO THE SCENE AND KIND OF STARTLED AND SURPRISED. THESE GENTLEMEN AND THEY SAY THAT IS WHEN THEY SAY THE THE MAN WOULD NOT PUT DOWN THE GUN AND THE OFFICERS OPENED FIRE. THOSE WITNESSES SAYING THE MAN DIED THERE AT THE SCENE. WE HAVE KENDALL KEYS WHO SPOKE TO THE PERSON WHO WAS SHOT, SISTER, WHO SAYS HE ALSO DIED. WE’RE WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION THAT THIS IS A DEADLY POLICE SHOOTING FROM THE MILWAUKEE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER, AS WELL AS MILWAUKEE POLICE AND THE SECRET SERVICE, WHO WE UNDERSTAND ARE IN ROUTE TO THIS SCENE AS THEY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE LEAD AGENCIES HERE IN MILWAUKEE, PARTI

Person fatally shot by police near Republican National Convention venue

Updated: 4:57 PM EDT Jul 16, 2024

Police officers from Columbus, Ohio, shot and killed a man Tuesday afternoon about 1 mile from Fiserv Forum, the main RNC venue in Milwaukee. Witnesses told WISN 12 News two men experiencing homelessness were fighting in King Park, and one of them pulled a knife out. The witnesses said the men were startled when so many officers responded. Witnesses said numerous officers fired on the man with the knife. This has not yet been confirmed by police.There was a large police presence, including the Secret Service, at the scene.The officers involved in the shooting are not from the Milwaukee Police Department but are from Columbus, Ohio.A statement from the Columbus Fraternal Order of Police said no officers were injured. Police from 63 departments in 24 states and Washington, D.C., along with 44 Wisconsin agencies are in Milwaukee this week for the Republican National Convention. The incident itself does not appear to be related to the RNC and was outside the security zone.

MILWAUKEE —

Police officers from Columbus, Ohio, shot and killed a man Tuesday afternoon about 1 mile from Fiserv Forum, the main RNC venue in Milwaukee.

Witnesses told WISN 12 News two men experiencing homelessness were fighting in King Park, and one of them pulled a knife out. The witnesses said the men were startled when so many officers responded. Witnesses said numerous officers fired on the man with the knife. This has not yet been confirmed by police.

There was a large police presence, including the Secret Service, at the scene.

The officers involved in the shooting are not from the Milwaukee Police Department but are from Columbus, Ohio.

A statement from the Columbus Fraternal Order of Police said no officers were injured.

Police from 63 departments in 24 states and Washington, D.C., along with 44 Wisconsin agencies are in Milwaukee this week for the Republican National Convention.

The incident itself does not appear to be related to the RNC and was outside the security zone.