Milwaukee shooting; 49-year-old accused of firing shots, wounding man

The Brief

  • Billy Beiersdorf faces charges of attempted homicide and felony firearm possession after a shooting on Milwaukee’s north side.
  • Police recovered casings from two guns at the scene and later found three firearms at Beiersdorf’s residence.

MILWAUKEE A 49-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of firing shots and wounding a man on the city’s north side. The accused is Billy Beiersdorf – and he faces the following criminal counts:

  • Attempted first-degree intentional homicide
  • Possession of a firearm by a felon

Shooting investigation

What we know:

According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police were dispatched on Thursday, Nov. 27 to investigate a shooting near 29th and Fairmount. When officers got to the scene, they recovered twelve 9mm casings in a driveway and nine more casings in the grass near a sidewalk.

A testing of the recovered casings “suggested that each grouping was fired from a separate firearm,” the complaint says.

Surveillance video recovered

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