MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police shot and killed a 22-year-old man Friday after a nearly two-hour standoff that began with reports of an armed robbery and ended with officers firing at the suspect on the second-floor landing of an apartment building.
Family telling TMJ4, the man killed was Jaylyn Brown of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said uniformed officers responded at approximately 10:58 a.m. to the 8500 block of West Kaul Avenue after a caller reported a subject with a gun who threatened to shoot them. Investigators later learned the suspect had attempted to rob the caller.
Officers spotted the suspect walking away from the scene armed with a revolver. When they attempted to stop him, the suspect held the revolver to his own head, told officers to shoot him, and threatened to shoot officers before fleeing on foot to a nearby apartment building. He retreated to a second-floor landing in a common hallway.
Watch: Police Chief Jeffrey Norman provides update after officers shoot and kill and armed robbery suspect
Officers spotted the suspect walking away from the scene armed with a revolver. When they attempted to stop him, the suspect held the revolver to his own head, told officers to shoot him, and threatened to shoot officers before fleeing on foot to a nearby apartment building. He retreated to a second-floor landing in a common hallway.
Officers heard a firearm discharge as they repeatedly ordered the suspect to drop the revolver. An officer then discharged their firearm at the suspect. No one was struck at that time.
Watch: Milwaukee police shoot and kill armed robbery suspect after standoff on West Kaul Avenue
Officers then negotiated with the suspect for approximately one hour. During that time, the suspect agreed to accept a bottle of water and a cigar from officers and walked down the stairs to retrieve them.
At that point, officers used less lethal options in an attempt to take him into custody. The suspect retreated up the stairs to the landing, where officers shot him.
The suspect was taken into custody, and medical aid was rendered at the scene. His revolver was recovered near him. No officers were injured by gunfire.
Norman said it was unclear whether the suspect was armed when he came downstairs.
"At this time, we don't know whether or not he was armed, because the hallway is a little bit dark," Norman said. "We still — this is an ongoing investigation, but at the time that he did come down, we did attempt to use, like I said, less-than-lethal options to attempt to get him into custody, but he unfortunately retreated back up the stairs."
While investigating the incident, another victim reported to Milwaukee police that the suspect had attempted to rob them of their vehicle while armed with a revolver. That attempted robbery occurred in the 8400 block of West Kaul Avenue shortly before the original call.
Norman confirmed the suspect was armed throughout the entire incident.
"I do know that he was armed with a revolver throughout this entire incident," Norman said. "As I alluded to, right before we even respond to the scene where he had attempted to rob a caller who had told us about the subject of the gun, but also was involved in an attempted robbery of a vehicle."
Norman said there were two separate shooting incidents before the deadly encounter.
"There was an initial shots fired incident, some negotiating going on, and then another shots fired incident," Norman said. "So we had two separate incidents before this unfortunate — the encounter, deadly encounter."
Norman said officers were not aware of the suspect being struck during the first exchange of gunfire, but confirmed he was struck during the second.
"We're not aware of anything in regards to that first round of firearm exchange, but there was again firearm exchange at the end where the suspect was struck," Norman said.
The suspect was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead at approximately 12:50 p.m.
The three officers involved are a 39-year-old male with more than 13 years of service, a 46-year-old male with more than 22 years of service, and a 41-year-old male with more than 22 years of service. All three have been placed on administrative duty, which Norman described as routine in a critical incident.
The Milwaukee Area Investigative Team is investigating the incident. The Waukesha Police Department is the lead investigating agency. Body camera video related to the incident will be released in accordance with Standard Operating Procedure 575.
TMJ4 spoke to Brown's mother, Dlynn.
"No matter whatever happened that’s still my son," Brown told TMJ4.
Brown is hoping MPD can answer her questions, and she says she needs to see police body camera footage.
"My only question that I need answered is why, what happened," Brown said. "I definitely want to see body cam, you can’t just tell me you got to show me."
That footage will be released within 15 days of the incident, according to MPD policy.
A witness who works in a business across from the apartment told me he heard the suspect yelling before the deadly encounter.
"Shoot me shoot me," the witness said.
Video captured by TMJ4 News crews shows the aftermath of the shooting, including paramedics loading someone into an ambulance.
Norman said the investigation remains ongoing.
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