The Milwaukee Medical Examiner’s Office (MMEO) previously reported the number of victims as five but added an additional victim — an adult male — on Monday. That brings the total number of victims to five males and one female, the MMEO said.
Police were assisting with a welfare check at a residence in Milwaukee around 3:45 p.m. when they found the bodies of five people. The circumstances around the discovery of an additional victim was not immediately known.
“All five deaths are being treated as homicides,” Milwaukee Police Assistant Chief Paul Formolo said Sunday evening. “At this time, the motive and information regarding any involved suspects is not known to us right now.”
The identities of the victims are pending and autopsies are being conducted Monday, according to Formolo.
Authorities do not believe there is a threat to the community, the assistant chief said.
When asked about the reason for the welfare check on the residence, Formolo said, “Citizens of our community had concerns with the occupants that resided there and it’s a normal call for us to respond to. We do it all the time.”
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson extended condolences to the victims’ loved ones in a statement obtained by CNN.
“The murders discovered today on a residential block in the heart of our city are horrific,” Johnson said. “It is important not to feel numbed by the ongoing violence in our community. A horrible crime has again occurred, and it is not a movie or a fictional account. These victims died in our city, in one of our neighborhoods.
Milwaukee, one of the country’s 40 most populous cities, has recorded more homicides in 2021 than any other year on record, according to a CNN analysis of police department data.
This was the second year in a row that the city set a homicide record, Milwaukee Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Efrain Cornejo confirmed to CNN.
There were at least 192 homicides in 2021, Cornejo said. In 2020, the city recorded 190 homicides.
“We remain steadfast…
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