Father Of Slain 5-Year-Old Kept Changing Story For Police: Report

MILWAUKEE, WI — The father of a 5-year-old boy who was shot and killed has been charged in court after authorities say he changed his story several times as he was questioned by investigators following his son's death.

Court documents show that Jamal Anderson, 27, Milwaukee has been charged with neglecting a child-consequence is death, and possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession with intent to deliver heroin.

If convicted, Anderson faces up to 33 years behind bars. Anderson is currently being held in the Milwaukee County Jail. Jail records show Anderson is being held on $200,000 bail as of Tuesday afternoon.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Milwaukee County, police were sent to Anderson's apartment at just after 1 a.m. on Feb. 8 on a report of a shooting. Anderson's apartment was on the 5300 block of N. Lovers Lane Road.

During the 911 call, Anderson could be heard saying, “somebody just tried to rob
me” and “they pushed in my house and they shot, they shot and they shot me, they shot.” According to the criminal complaint, the dispatcher repeatedly asked Anderson what happened. After 2 minutes and 34 seconds into the call, Anderson said for the first time, “my son, they shot my son,” the criminal complaint stated.

Police say they found Anderson's 5-year-old son with a gunshot wound to his stomach, and not breathing. Officers performed CPR and other life-saving measures on the boy, but it was too late. Wauwatosa Fire Department paramedics tried to save the boy's life, but those efforts were also unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the criminal complaint, detectives found a backpack outside that was partially-buried in a snow bank. When police looked inside, they found a .40 Glock handgun with an extended magazine and one spent casing still inside the chamber. They also found nearly $4,000 in cash, ID and debit cards belonging to Anderson, and substances that later turned out to be heroin and Fentanyl and marijuana.

Story One

Milwaukee Police questioned Anderson about the incident that night. During the interview, Anderson said he walked out into the hallway when two suspects confronted him. According to Anderson, they forced him back into his apartment. Once inside, they grabbed a laptop, credit cards and fled the apartment. Anderson said his son had been shot during the home invasion, though he denied having a gun, investigators said.

Story Two

According to the criminal complaint, police confronted Anderson about the backpack they found outside. Anderson claimed that he had people over, but that his gun was on top of the refrigerator. He told police he was taking garbage out when he heard a gunshot from inside the apartment building, followed by his guests running out of the apartment building. Anderson told police he went inside his apartment and discovered his son shot in the abdomen and lying on the floor. He denied the gun involved in the shooting belonged to him.

According to police, investigators pleaded with Anderson to tell the truth.

Story Three

According to the criminal complaint, Anderson told a third version of events. This time, Anderson said a woman named Tracy, a drug dealer named Domo and a third person came into his apartment that night to smoke marijuana.

Anderson continued, saying Tracy, Domo and the third person were all smoking weed when his son came into the living room. Domo was attempting to sell Anderson a gun with an extended magazine. Anderson told police he examined the gun, but thought the price was too steep. He told Domo to put the gun up on a shelf. He then took out the garbage. Anderson said he was in the hallway of the apartment building when he heard a single gunshot. He went back into the apartment and found his son had been shot, the criminal complaint stated.

Anderson told police that Tracy and the third person gathered the gun and drugs into a backpack. Anderson said he took the backpack away from them and the three guests ran from the apartment. According to Anderson, he took the backpack outside and put the backpack in a snow bank, as he did not want it to look like his son was in a drug house.

According to the criminal complaint, when asked, Anderson could not explain to police how is ID and debit card ended up in the backpack.

Fourth Story

According to the criminal complaint, investigators questioned Anderson a second time during the night of the shooting. This time, Anderson told police that Tracy and Domo were over at his apartment, and that he wanted to buy seven “zips” of marijuana from Domo, who was armed with a .40 Glock with an extended magazine.

In Anderson's latest story, he claimed to police that Domo wanted to sell the gun to him. He admitted to handling the gun and inspecting it, before ultimately telling Domo to put the gun on a shelf, which he did. Anderson said he went to take out the garbage. Between five to eight seconds later, Anderson told police he heard a gunshot. He went back into the apartment and saw the gun that was on the shelf was now on the apartment floor. Anderson claimed Tracy and Domo left the apartment so quickly, that they left their drugs behind, the criminal complaint stated.

Fifth Story

According to the criminal complaint, police detectives confronted Anderson about numerous inconsistencies in his story. This time, Anderson admitted that the gun was his, but that he bought it from Domo six months ago. He claimed Domo was handling his gun and had it in his lap just before he took the garbage out.

Fifth Story, Part Two

As police questioned Anderson further, he claimed that he put Tracy and Domo's drugs and his own debit card and ID in his own backpack before burying it outside in the snow, the criminal complaint stated.

When police questioned Anderson about Tracy and Domo, officers could determined that there was a possibility that neither person existed.

Fingerprint Evidence Tied Anderson to Backpack

Investigators say they were able to collect 11 fingerprints from two different vacuum bags that were originally located inside Anderson's backpack. Of the 11 latent prints recovered, nine were
suitable for comparison. Of the nine suitable for comparison, authorities learned the all belonged to Anderson.

On Feb. 10, Milwaukee police detectives examined photos that were obtained from the Anderson's Facebook account. According to the criminal complaint, those photos showed Anderson: holding a large stack of money; standing and making an obscene gesture with the suspected firearm involved in his son's shooting death tucked in his waistband; the suspected firearm on the his bed within the apartment and the suspected firearm, along with drugs, on the kitchen table inside the apartment.