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Kenosha Police Issue Shelter-in-Place as Manhunt Targets Homicide Suspect Marckus Plaza

A localized shelter-in-place reflects an active neighborhood search based on credible tips of the suspect’s location.

Overview

  • Police are searching for Marckus Plaza, who is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in a Kenosha stabbing.
  • During a welfare check, an officer reported seeing Plaza through a basement window dragging a body before colleagues forced entry.
  • Inside the home, officers found his estranged wife dead from stab wounds and a cell phone bent in half.
  • The couple’s two children were inside the house, and one told investigators their father hit their mother and used a knife.
  • Investigators released surveillance video and a physical description and ordered residents near 75th Street and 23rd Avenue to shelter in place as the suspect remains at large.