Downtown Shooting: Teens Charged, Detective Leaves Hospital

MILWAUKEE, WI — The Milwaukee police detective who was injured in a downtown shooting was released from Froedtert Hospital on Tuesday.

Milwaukee Police Department Detective Andrew Wilkiewicz met a supportive crowd after he left Froedtert's care Tuesday evening, FOX 6 Milwaukee reported. News cameras showed him being applauded by family and friends.

Wilkiewicz, 37, was shot on Thursday after he intervened in a robbery at a Shake Shack in Milwaukee's Third Ward neighborhood. Prosecutors brought eighteen charges against three teens accused of being involved in the shooting, court records showed.

Milwaukee police arrested Timonte Karroll-Robinson, 17, and Dionta'e Hayes, 18, and both are charged with driving a car without the owner's consent and harboring a felon, court records showed.

Police are looking for Keasean Ellis-Brown, 18, the Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement. Ellis-Brown is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and second-degree recklessly endangering safety, according to court records.

Botched Robbery Turned To Shooting

The criminal complaint said that the three teens unsuccessfully tried to steal a Door Dash driver's car on N. Water Street and E. Buffalo Street. One teen tracked the driver into the Shake Shack lobby and tried to rob them, when Wilkiewicz intervened.

Surveillance video showed the detective and the teen, identified as Ellis-Brown, in a struggle before the teen pulled out a handgun, the complaint said. Footage showed Wilkiewicz pulling his own handgun and tracking Ellis-Brown with it, before Ellis-Brown ran out of the store and appeared to fire his gun into the store.

The detective was struck multiple times, and the bullets barely missed his heart, the complaint said. He was rushed to Froedtert Hospital after Ellis-Brown fled the scene.

The other two teens, Hayes and Karroll-Robinson, were driving in a stolen Volkswagen with Ellis-Brown when the 18-year-old tried to steal the Door Dash driver's car, the complaint said. Ellis-Brown got into the car but got out after he discovered that the driver's children were inside.

Hayes told police that Ellis-Brown dropped his phone inside the Door Dash driver's car and followed the driver into the restaurant to get it back before the shooting. After the shooting, Ellis-Brown ran back to the car, and Karroll-Robinson drove off, the complaint said.

The two teens drove Ellis-Brown to his house before they were arrested on North 29th Street and West Chambers Street, the complaint said.

Both Ellis-Brown and Hayes were out on bond following separate felony charges at the time of the shooting, according to court records.

In December, a group petitioned Milwaukee County District Attorney John T. Chisholm to be removed from office after he told county supervisors that an assistant district attorney in his office set a low bail amount for Darrell Brooks Jr. Brooks is accused of killing six people and driving his car through a parade in Waukesha.

Milwaukee Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson said that residents "have had enough of deadly gun violence" after the shooting and cited previous incidents where a 16-year-old was shot and killed in early January.

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