Man Flips Car, Leaves Child Behind In Milwaukee Police Chase Video

MILWAUKEE, WI — Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies arrested a man after he flipped his car and ran away, leaving a 4-year-old child and an AK-style rifle behind on the Interstate 43 inside Milwaukee, police said.

Ladarius Davis-Hughes, 21, was charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety, having a gun as an adjudicated juvenile, neglecting a child and causing bodily harm, and two counts of bail jumping, court records showed.

A deputy from the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office was responding to a call April 12 when he saw an Infiniti speeding north on the Interstate 43 near West Holt Avenue, the criminal complaint said. The car cut across three lanes, lost control and slammed into the median wall of the left lane before flipping over and landing upside down, according to police.

When the deputy stopped his squad car and approached the wreck, he saw a 4-year-old child climb out through the shattered windshield, followed by Davis-Hughes, the complaint said. The child complained that his nose and face hurt, and he had visible swelling around his cheek and eye, so the deputy put the child in his squad car, the complaint said.

Davis-Hughes ran, leaving the child in the back of the squad car, police said. Video showed him running across three lanes of traffic and climbing over a concrete wall to get away. The child was eventually returned to his mother, authorities said.

Inside the crashed Infiniti, the deputy found a Romanian "Draco" AK-style rifle, loaded with 22 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber, the complaint said. There was no car seat or booster seat in the car, authorities said.

The 21-year-old had been adjudicated as a delinquent in connection with an armed robbery in 2015, court records showed.