Man Arrested After Woman Killed In West Allis Shooting: Police

WEST ALLIS, WI — A man was arrested early Tuesday morning at a local hotel in connection with Monday's fatal daytime shooting of a 24-year-old woman in West Allis, police said in a news release.

West Allis detectives and SWAT personnel arrested the 25-year-old Milwaukee man, according to a news release from the West Allis Police Department. Police said they are not seeking any other suspects. Police said the person they arrested knew the woman who was shot.

The woman was found shot multiple times around noon near South 72nd Street and Madison Street, about two blocks north of Greenfield Avenue. Several people had reported gunfire, according to police. Officers and firefighters from West Allis provided medical care to the woman but she died at the scene, police said.

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The family of the woman who was killed told WISN12 news she was a mother of four.

The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office has since identified the woman as Ninoshka M. Maestre Lozada, according to a report by TMJ4.

When officers first arrived at the scene, police said the suspect was not present. He was later arrested in the early hours of Tuesday.