4 injured, including 2 children following shooting in Milwaukee
Two children and two adults were shot and injured Wednesday as they sat in a vehicle at a gas station on Milwaukee's southwest side.
Milwaukee police said the shooting took place shortly before 2:30 p.m. in the 5900 block of West Oklahoma Avenue after the suspects fired several shots at an occupied vehicle. A 9-year-old and a 4-year-old were transported to Children's Hospital with nonfatal injuries.
Two adults, ages 33 and 28, were also struck and have life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Police do not have anyone in custody. Anyone with any information can contact police at 414-935-7360, or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or by using the P3 Tips app.
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Investigators were on the scene at the BP gas station, combing through a four-door Nissan Altima that is stationed at one of the gas pumps. The two right-side doors appeared to have about a dozen bullets and the rear windshield was shattered.
More than a dozen evidence markers were on the ground near the vehicle. Traffic leading to the intersection of 60th and Oklahoma was diverted several hours to nearby residential side streets.
Ruth Sanchez, 39, was playing video games in her apartment that faces the gas station when she heard gunfire.
"I told my daughter, 'Get down. They're shooting,'" she said.
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When she looked out the window, she saw two males wearing black masks running from the scene.
Surveillance footage from a nearby residence shows three young people running away from the scene. One person was carrying a long gun, another appeared to be holding a handgun, the video showed.
Sanchez said she later emerged from her apartment and also saw people injured inside the vehicle. Among those hurt, she said, appeared to be two young girls.
"I see the little babies on the floor," Sanchez said. "That's something you can't unsee."
“I go to this gas station all the time to get juice, food for my kids, whatever,” Sanchez continued. “I never would have imagined anything like this ever happening here.”
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Tracy Fronczak was cleaning her apartment, in the building next to Sanchez's. She was tidying up in anticipation of a visit from a friend who was bringing a new bicycle for her 9-year-old son.
Around 2:30 p.m., she heard a "rumbling" from between the two buildings.
"It echoed," she said. "It was loud. Sounded like someone was moving dumpsters."
Fronczak later learned it was gunshots, fired in rapid succession, from just a few yards away.
"He (her son) could have been out there riding his bike right as it happened," she said. "The whole thing. It's just so scary to think about."
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 4 injured, including 2 children following shooting in Milwaukee
