MILWAUKEE (TCN) — An 18-year-old has been sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree intentional homicide of a 5-year-old boy he strangled in 2023 when he was 15 years old.
Erik Mendoza and David Pietura, 27, lived in the same home as the family of 5-year-old Prince McCree at the time of his death. According to a criminal complaint obtained by WISN, Pietura walked in on Mendoza choking the child. Pietura told Mendoza that they needed to clean up the scene, so he tied up McCree and put him into garbage bags.
When the child regained consciousness, Mendoza and Pietura stomped on him and beat him with objects including a dumbbell and a birdbath. Surveillance footage later showed the two of them disposing of the child’s body in a dumpster…