Mass killing in Milwaukee yesterday...

[Archae]

Apparently the suspect has a LONG violent criminal record.

Milwaukee police find 5 dead in house; suspect in custody

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Police found five people shot to death Monday inside a Milwaukee home and arrested the man who dialed 911 to report the slayings, the city’s police chief said.

The police department received a call around 10:30 a.m. from a man who said his family was dead, Chief Alfonso Morales said during a brief news conference. When officers arrived at the house on the city’s north side they found five victims ranging in age from 14 to 41, the chief said.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Mayor Tom Barrett told reporters at the house that a baby was found alive in the house. Investigators believe the shooter decided to spare the infant.

https://www.wbay.com/content/news/Milwaukee-police-find-5-dead-in-house-suspect-in-custody-569982441.html

[malaise]

1. Domestic violence is always a serious problem

but women and children are in great danger during these stay at home times.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. This

[jmg257]

2. Sounds like a real dick...can he be dealt with seriously this time?

The Journal Sentinel, citing three unidentified police sources, reported the suspect was a 43-year-old Milwaukee man with a lengthy criminal record in Milwaukee County.

Online court records show he was convicted in 2002 of misdemeanor battery. He was sentenced to probation, ordered to attend domestic abuse counseling and prohibited from possessing firearms.

He pleaded guilty in 2007 to felony battery, felony bail jumping and felony intimidation of a witness. He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, prohibited from possessing firearms and ordered to complete a batterers’ intervention course.

Five years later, in 2012, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery with a domestic abuse modifier, and drew 18 months in prison with another gun ban. In 2017, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a month in jail with work-release privileges.

[SheltieLover]

3. The court system needs to stop coddling these jerks!

🤬🤬🤬

[rgbecker]

5. Can you say "Mental Health"?

They don't mention a motive, but you can be sure that ease of access to a weapon didn't help keep this from happening. Time for Health care as a right and registration of weapons, background checks etc.

[Beringia]

6. I was reading about the Canadian shooter yesterday

and they believe it started with domestic abuse of his girlfriend. And then a group called THANS (Transition House Assocation of Nova Scotia) pointed out most of these attacks relate back to domestic abuse, "male violence is part of a bigger social problem of entitlement and toxic masculinity".

http://thans.ca/deepest-condolences-families-impacted-horrific-mass-murder-18-19-april-2020-nova-scotia/

It sounds like this mass killing might have started from domestic abuse too.

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Also this

On Friday, a group of Nova Scotian feminists wrote a statement that said misogyny and domestic violence were part of the shooting’s narrative. In the letter, they urged the RCMP to provide clarity on what they outlined as the “femicidal” aspects of the murders, demanding an inquiry into the investigation that would provide feminist analysis.

The letter acknowledged that not all of the victims were women or girls — nine victims were men — but the group said they viewed misogynist violence as being at the root of the attack.

On average, they said one woman or girl is killed every 2.5 days in Canada — which has been a consistent trend for the last four decades.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6868709/nova-scotia-mass-shooting-femicide/