Milwaukee Fatal Home Invasion Leads to Charges Against Mother, Son
I’ve lived in Milwaukee long enough to know — when a crime like this happens, it doesn’t just make the news. It rattles the whole neighborhood.
Just after midnight on April 25, police got the kind of call every officer dreads. Inside a quiet senior housing complex on Plymouth Avenue, they found a 70-year-old man lying face-down on his apartment floor. He’d been beaten so badly, officers later described the scene as “brutal.”
The man’s nephew was there too — awake now, but still frozen by the moment he heard a stranger’s voice cut through the dark: “Don’t move! Don’t even think about it.” In those seconds, safety — the one thing you expect inside your own home — was gone…