6-year-old among five injured by gunfire, a day after young mother dies in crossfire
Annysa Johnson
Five people were injured by gunfire in Milwaukee on Friday evening, including a 6-year-old child, barely 24 hours after a woman was fatally shot in the crossfire of a gunbattle on Milwaukee's near north side.
Milwaukee police said early Saturday that they are investigating four separate shootings in less than four hours Friday, including a 15-year-old grazed when two men got into an argument in the 5100 block of North 91st Street around 8 p.m. and shots were fired.
In the other incidents:
A 25-year-old man suffered a serious gunshot wound, and a 19-year-old woman was grazed when shots were fired in the 3900 block of North 28th Street around 8:30 p.m.
A 6-year-old girl was grazed after a gun was accidentally discharged inside a home in the 400 block of North 31st Street around 9:30 p.m. A 19-year-old man was taken into custody on unspecified charges, and the case will be reviewed by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office in the coming days, police said.
A 20-year-old man suffered a serious wound when he was shot near North Buffum and West Center streets in the Riverwest neighborhood around 11:30 p.m., less than a mile from where a young mother was fatally shot after driving through a gunbattle early Thursday evening.
Jasmine Banks, 23, had two children in the car when she was caught in the crossfire between two shooters at North 5th and West Center Streets. She was the latest innocent bystander fatally shot in the gunfire that has escalated in the city in recent years.
An anti-violence march is expected to kick off at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, at North 3rd and West Burleigh streets, just blocks from where Banks was killed, as part of the third annual Unity and Peace gathering.
A previous version of this story misstated the number of children in Jasmine Banks' car.
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