A jury has found a Wisconsin man guilty of fatally shooting his brother in the chest after believing that the victim was being “intimate” with the suspect’s wife and wanted to kill him.
Brandon Smith, 51, has been found guilty of first-degree reckless homicide in the death of his brother, 41-year-old Justin Smith, Milwaukee Fox affiliate WITI reported. The defendant had originally been charged with first-degree intentional homicide.
It was the early morning hours of Feb. 26, 2025, and the two brothers were with their mother at their home on the 4900 block of North 47th Street in Milwaukee, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime. Brandon Smith had been living there since the previous September due to his divorce, the complaint said…