Overview
- Police responding to multiple active-shooter reports searched an apartment building around 9 p.m. Tuesday and moved toward the sound of gunfire before finding a man on a second-floor stairwell.
- Two officers fired their duty weapons after encountering the man, striking him; officers took the 20-year-old into custody and he was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to survive.
- Investigators recovered an AR-style pistol at the scene, which officials say indicates a firearm was involved in the incident that callers had reported.
- The two officers involved have been placed on administrative duty, a routine step for officer-involved shootings, and the Milwaukee Police Department has opened a formal investigation.
- The department said it will release body or related video under Standard Operating Procedure 575 and news updates will depend on the ongoing review and forensic findings.