2 people arrested in fatal shooting of Milwaukee 4-year-old
Two people were behind bars Monday, and face felony charges in the shooting death last week of 4-year-old JaiNadia Little.
Anthony Brookshire, 41, and Derreanna Little, 25, were arrested over the weekend and charged with neglecting a child with the consequence of death, as a party to a crime.
Brookshire also faces two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Brookshire and Little made initial court appearances on Saturday. Bonds for their release were set at $100,000 and $5,000, respectively. They remained in custody Monday, online jail records show.
Brookshire and Little are expected to be back in court March 4 for a preliminary hearing. Little, who prosecutors believe is JaiNadia's aunt, also has a bail hearing set for Wednesday.
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A criminal complaint paints a grim picture of what unfolded inside the northwest Milwaukee home where the drama unfolded on Feb. 17.
A 911 dispatcher got a call just after 9:45 p.m.
The dispatcher asked what the emergency was, but got no answer. Moments later, the woman could be heard screaming, then the call dropped, the complaint says.
A second call was placed to 911 from the same number and the woman is again heard.
"Stay with me, stay with me," a female's voice is heard saying. "It's OK, you hear me, stay woke.' Moments later, the woman yells, "Anthony, go get my baby."
The woman didn't speak directly with the dispatcher in either call.
Milwaukee police went to the home in the area of North 39th Street and Sheridan Avenue. While there, the woman, identified later as Little, told the officers her 4-year-old niece had been shot, according to the complaint.
JaiNadia was not in the home when police got there; she had been driven to St. Joseph's Hospital, where she later died from a gunshot wound to the chest. A Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's report indicated JaiNadia was shot in a bedroom.
Inside the home, police discovered "a deflated air mattress with blood spatter near a hole in the upper center portion of the mattress," the complaint says. A single spent 7.62x39 casing also was located on the mattress, according to the document.
Little and Brookshire "made differing statements" to investigators, the complaint says.
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Initially, Little refused to disclose the location of the shooting.
Little claimed she found her 1-year-old daughter holding a gun when she went to check on the two children, the criminal complaint says. Brookshire claimed he was at a gas station when the shooting occurred, and that Little was screaming about what happened as he returned to the home.
He told investigators he was unaware of any guns in the house, and said he didn't know how the child could have accessed one.
Brookshire has been convicted in the past of six felonies, and was on active community supervision with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections at the time of the shooting, court records show.
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Five of his convictions involve firearm offenses, which prohibit him from possessing one.
Brookshire admitted to investigators he attempted to "clean the scene" by placing the weapon in a bag, the complaint said.
Brookshire faces nearly 60 years in prison if he is convicted. Little faces up to 25 years.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 2 people arrested in fatal shooting of Milwaukee 4-year-old
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