Milwaukee Man Injured Niece, 4 Other Girls In Shooting At High School: Prosecutors

MILWAUKEE, WI — A Milwaukee man accused of injuring five women and girls when he fired a gun into the ground near Rufus King High School has been charged with five counts of recklessly endangering safety. The criminal complaint said he was the uncle of one of the women.

Devon Jobe, 34, is accused of injuring two 15-year-old girls, a 16-year-old girl, a 17-year-old girl and a 20-year-old woman. Each charge against him is a felony.

Jobe first appeared in court on Tuesday, and his bail was set at $25,000, court records showed.

The man is the uncle of the 20-year-old woman he is accused of injuring outside of Rufus King High School, 4170 North 19th St., the criminal complaint said. The woman, who was unnamed, left a basketball game when a 16-year-old girl she was with got into a fight with another girl.

The woman called her aunt and uncle, who drove to school grounds and approached the group. When the woman joined the fight, she heard two to three gunshots and later discovered she had been struck with bullet fragments, the complaint said.

Three other teenage girls who weren't involved in the fight told detectives they were struck as well, the complaint said. All are expected to survive.

A security guard for the high school told investigators that a fight broke out after he ejected a group of teenagers he didn't recognize from the school. A man and a woman drove up in a sedan and got out. When a second fight broke out, the man shot into the ground three times, the complaint said.

Jobe was identified in surveillance video as the man who got out of the car and shot the ground. Police said he shot the ground at an angle, and his niece and several bystanders were hit with bullet fragments.

He turned himself in on Friday, the Milwaukee Police Department said.

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