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WITI FOX 6 News At 9 October 28, 2016

i know i shouldnt of drove he allegedly said. it was two red lights. We took off. I crashed right under. Plankinton, clybourn and like right before we ran. investigators say randhawa planned to report the car as stolen. Randhawa also allegedly expressed concern his dna would be left on the lexus airbag. because im bleeding and i have a dui. he allegedly says on the recording, and we just crashed the out of it. only after learning of the three fatalities did randhawa turn himself in. That was moa js nobody can know of three young people being killed and another being injured and not be sad, its a tragedy. in court today, the defendants bail was at a 1Million Dollars. His attorney told the court commissioner. Its unlikely randhawa will be able to pay that. Reporting live at the mke, co plane carrying republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence skidded off a runway at Laguardia Airport tonight. As you can see its rainy out east tonight. The good news no one was hurt. Swearing, rapping, even insulting the judge and victims family. Michael morgan kept the bailiffs busy as he was sentenced today for killing children. Fox6s Myra Sanchick is here with the story. If the facts of the crimes against 29 year old mich enough. It dont make you a man because you killed some kids. Thats nothing to brag about. Morgan was convicted for setting a fire in october 2015 near 36th and silver spring. The fire killed his estranged wifes son kevin little and the boys cousin two year old taenajah morgan. It was morgans antics in the courtroom for his sentencing that caught many off guard thursday. Police escorted the grieving mother out after morgans outbursts. And as back up to my cell ok im getting there f man, you dont give a f about us man. We black man. Youd hang us man i didnt bring you into this courtroom. What the f man lets go so you can put that white sheet over your head firefighters and First Responders did an incredible job in trying to preserve the life of those little ones cmon man. Taking forever. Morgan did his best to hurl insults. Hey i gotta go make a hook up. Can you hurry up ordering the judge to tell him his sentence quickly. Forty twenty forty twenty twenty twenty consecutive cmon. Give me that honey. I got 99 to go despite bars. In effect, a life sentence. Reporting in milwaukee, Myra Sanchick fox 6 news. What do you think about what happened in court today . Join the conversation find the Michael Morgan post on the fox6 News Facebook page. The Milwaukee Police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith sparking days of violent protests in the sherman park neighborhood is headed to trial but dominique heagganbrown is facing charges of Sexual Assault prostitution and taking intimate photos without consent. One of the alleged Sexual Assaults happened just one day after the shooting in sherman park. Haegganbrown is back in court next month. Now to a fox 6 excluisve an mps High School Security guard is accused of sexually assaulting a student friends of the victim say they turned him in. Our Ben Handelman with why many parents are upset he was allowed to be in last week 26yearold Michael Robinson was wearing a security uniform. Thursday he has a new outfit. State of wisconsin vs Michael Robinson. The Safety Officer at Riverside High School is accused of Sexual Assault by school staff. Investigators say the relationship with a 17yearold girl started in september. She first told me, and a couple other friends of ours. It was just between us. James mccorkle is the victims friend. He says robinson is known as mike at students, even helping them sneak in and out. Most of the kids at our school they would easily get his number. They would text him or call him and he would open a door for them. Investigators say robinson took the victim to his apartment where they had sex. Mccorkle made the tough decision to tell School Leaders last week. I finally came to the conclusion i should go to mr. Harris. His mother is happy he made the right choice. Im just proud of him. He children they will come to us when there is something wrong. Other parents questioning why robinson was allowed in school in the first place. He has two unrelated criminal cases pending a misdemeanor for carrying a concealed weapon and felony drug possession with intent to deliver. The school will not say if they were aware instead sending a statement to fox 6 saying mps is cooperating with the Milwaukee Police Department Regarding an allegation involving an employee. The employe pay. The investigation both with mpd and internally is ongoing and we cannot comment further. While mps sent us a statement, parents told us theyve been kept in the dark by the school. Due to his pending criminal cases which require robinson to stay out of trouble hes also facing bail jumping charges. Prosecutors asked for a 25thousand dollar bail today. Bail was set at 25hundred dollars. Hes due back in court next week. Milwaukee middle school. No one was injured, but one parent is upset claiming the school wasnt forthcoming with information. Fox 6s Brittany Shannon explains. A quiet street outside an mps school on the south side. But tuesday morning. Around 8 30 just as the first bell was about to ring. Milwaukee police say gunshots rang out just outside audubon middle school. This woman who wishes to remain anonymous. Heard about the shooting. And called the c told me no everything was fine that i had nothing to worry about a day later. She says she got a different story. They said that well it did happen and they were just given the information, the ok from the superintendent to give out that information. And thats what upset me when i called they should have given me the Little Information they did have Milwaukee Public Schools tells fox6 they made calls to all parents on tuesdaythe day of the incident. Mom, aura gomez says she got a call. At one o clock they didnt. She says she feels deceived. Upset that School Officials werent up front. From the start. They should have told me the little bit of information they did have 16 versus keeping me in the dark School Officials say they did reach out to parents in both english and spanish concerning the incident. The woman we spoke with said she never got a call. Police tell us they are still looking for the suspect who fired shots here shannon, fox 6 news. Mostly cloudy tonight with temperatures holding in the 40s. Mostly cloudy, windy and warmer on friday with highs in the middle 60s. The warmest day of the weekend will be saturday with highs in the middle 60s along with a chance for showers. Cooler, but dry on sunday with windy and warmer on monday with highs in the upper 60s. Tonight mostly cloudy. Low 44 wind se 5 mph friday partly cloudy, windy and warmer. High 65 wind sw 1525 mph saturday mostly cloudy with a slight chance for pm showers. Am low 63 high 65 wind wsw 510 mph an envelope full of money. The woman who found it. Turned it over to police. Would you do the same thing . Before you answer wait til you hear how much money it was. Cars burning in milwaukee. The fires intentionally set. The famous person they belong to. And next felons with firearms. The criminals who rarely get convicted. Fox 6 investigators every year, Milwaukee Police take thousands of guns off the streets. Hundreds of them from convicted felons. In possession of firearms could face up to ten years in prison. But fox 6 investigator bryan finds many of them dont go to prison at all. Weve pored over five years worth of data from 2011 to 2015. Thousands of cases where convicted felons were arrested for illegally carrying a gun. What we found is eyeopening. Three out of every four felons arrested in Milwaukee County for possession of a gun do not talked to police, prosecutors and judges to find out why. She still had the baby in her hand when they shot her. Whitney rhodes had been hiding in a closet just before the gunshots. She ran in the room and said, jassmine, im hit. and i just started screaming, everybody call 911 from their phones. Everybody just call 911. Whitney has 2013, and family members had gathered for a birthday barbecue. When a fight broke out. And Bobby Joe Johnson showed up with a gun. Bullets just came flying through the side window. And then thats when i heard they said whitney was shot. The 25yearold mother, still clutching a 2monthold child, had nothing to do with the chaos. Her daughter was still in between her legs, in front of her legs, sucking her fingers not knowing her mother is back there losing her life, is emblematic of the growing human toll on a city with so many violent criminals. And one of the best ways to catch them is to catch them with a gun. But catching them and putting them in prison are two different things. Theres got to be a consequence for criminality. A year before shooting rhodes to death, johnson was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. Its a crime that carries a maximum but johnsons case was dismissed. If he was locked away, put away like he should have been. Then this lady would still be alive to this day. Johnson is one among hundreds of convicted felons in milwaukee charged with having a gun, only to have those cases dropped. Its a huge issue. Milwaukee County District attorney John Chisholm says gun cases can be challenging for even the most experienced prosecutors. Who face massive cases, but they have to do some triage. They have to focus on the ones that pose the biggest risk. From 2011 to 2015, police referred more than 3thousand, 6hundred gun possession cases to the Milwaukee County das office. And we found charges were never filed in more than a third of them. Because there just isnt sufficient evidence at that point and time. Hundreds of others were charged, then dismissed, sometimes, because a key witness backed out. Thats what happened with Bobby Joe Johnson, whose police he had a gun. They found one hidden in the oven. But on the day of the trial, the states key witness failed to appear. She doesnt show. Shes not cooperative. That case gets dismissed. But even when felons are convicted of having guns in milwaukee. They dont always go to jail. At least, not for long. Our investigation finds 20percent serve less than a year in jail. 75percent serve less than three. If we cant put the felons in possession of firearms in jail, guns . Milwaukee police chief ed flynn says his officers take thousands of guns off the street every year. And they arrest the same felons for having them over and over again. Its a little bit like having a kid. And you say, if you do that, im gonna send you to your room without watching tv. And then they do it and then you let them watch tv. Why would their behavior change . Thats why flynn pushed for a change in state law that sets a minimum sentence for felons with firearms. Last year, the law changed. But the results have not. Four out of every five felons convicted of gun possession still dont get three years or more in prison. If theres a minimum sentence, how come people arent getting the minimum sentence . Boy, thats the question, isnt it . Turns out, the new law only applies if the original crime was violent. Only if the offender is caught with a gun within five years. And only if hes already completed his probation or it is actually a very small number of individuals who would actually qualify for sentencing under that change in the law. In other words, the new 3year minimum sentence is virtually meaningless. Its business as usual in the juvenile courts. Its business as usual in the adult felony courts. And the courts are flooded with gun cases. One of the incidents involves shots being fired. Judge frederick rosas so called gun court has more than 200 pending cases that invov shootings. So many, in fact, that simple possession cases are farmed out to other courts. We asked chief judge maxine white for an interview, so she arranged for us to meet with three of her most experienced felony court judges. During that meeting, which lasted more than an hour, the judges said our data was incomplete. In some cases, possibly inaccurate. That they didnt have enough time to review the data. And that you cant draw conclusions from that data without looking at the transcripts of each declined to be interviewed on camera, with former chief judge Jeffrey Kremers noting that he feared this story would play into the ongoing narrative that judges are soft on crime. Everybodys got a litany of excuses why nothing can change. The chief says he understands that budgets are tight and resources are scarce. Youre elected officials. Raise hell. Raise hell but when it comes to surviving life on milwaukees violent streets. Guns. The chief and the da agree on one thing. Theres no disincentive to carry a gun. We have to change that calculation. Violent criminals in milwaukee would rather be caught with a gun. Than without one. We obtained the data used in this story from two sources. First, an open records request to the milwaukee das office. Then, a painstaking, casebycase review of online court records. But even though the original data came from the da, it was nor Milwaukee County judges keep track of that kind of information. And chief flynn says thats part of the problem, because in his words police are the only ones using data to think strategically about crime. So chief judge maxine white said she didnt have enough time to review your findings. How much time did you give her . I first contacted her thirteen days ago, on october 14th. She asked to see both my findings and my source material. So i sent her both. A meeting. But at that meeting, she declined to talk on camera, saying shed prefer to be part of a followup story instead. So, chief judge white, if youre watching, our invitation to do that followup interview remains open. Still to come on fox6 news at 9 flames could be seen blocks away. Three vehicles burnt to a crisp. The search for the person who set the fire outside a well known milwaukee mans home. Plus, bad news for amazon. What one family wants after their mostly cloudy tonight with temperatures holding in the 40s. Mostly cloudy, windy and warmer on friday with highs in the middle 60s. The warmest day of the weekend will be saturday with highs in cooler, but dry on sunday with highs in the upper 50s. Partly sunny, windy and warmer on monday with highs in the upper 60s. Tonight mostly cloudy. Low 44 wind se 5 mph friday partly cloudy, windy and warmer. High 65 wind sw 1525 mph saturday mostly cloudy with a slight chance for pm showers. Am low 63 high 65 wind wsw 510 mph only on fox6 torched. Three expensive cars set on fire. And the owner . A wellknown local celebrity. Who was allegedly out to get him. Hes in his senior season and ready for it all to tip off. But one uwm player has other aspirations off the court. Now, to a story only on fox 6. A milwaukee mixed martial arts star targeted by arson. Three vehicles outside his home set on fire this Justin Williams shows you the video. I saw a car, speeding through the neighborhood. After this car catches his attention. Right around the same time as that happened, there was, kind of, a large bang. Carson catches this, holy stuff, on camera. It was three cars, caught on fire. I just, i ran outside, and i was hoping, you know, the house, hopefully, wasnt gonna carson blaszak is at his milwaukee home where he records these images of three, burning vehicles, outside the home of mixed martial arts star, anthony showtime pettis. As hes screaming that the house is on fire. Of course, you jump, outta bed, and you cant believe your eyes, to see what youre, you know, that its real. Meanwhile, Milwaukee Police believe an unknown suspect used an accelerant to ignite two of the vehicles, which forced flames to spread to a third, highend vehicle, sitting in the driveway of the former ufc and wec lightweight champion, w calls a good neighbor. Very friendly. See him running around. Joggin around. And, while the wheels may be down for the count, carson considers what could have been. Luckily, the Police Department, and fire department, were able to get here, very quickly, and took care of it, and everyone was safe. This safety, again, confirmed by one of pettis brothers, who says anthony is still trying to process what has happened, and is holding off on doing any interviews. Milwaukee police ask anyone with call. Justin williams, fox 6 news. A university of wisconsinmadison student already accused of sexually assaulting a woman is now charged with sexually assaulting three other women. 20yearold alec cook is facing accusations dating back to march 2015. Prosecutors say one woman was assaulted during a ballroom dancing cook. The other alleged victims were a woman cook met at a party and another he met in a human sexuality class. A pedestrian is killed while crossing the interstate in Kenosha County this morning. The 36yearold man was hit and killed by an suv on i94 just south of highway 158. Authorities say he was likely homeless. And possibly on drugs. The 30yearold driver and his 29 yearold female passenger were vehicle associated with the subject in the area. So were still trying to determine whether it was a hitch hiking type situation or theres some other reason the individual found himself up on the interstate Drug Paraphernalia was found on the victim but toxicology results have not come back yet. Theres a College Basketball player at u. W. M. Who hopes to score as big on the court this season as he already has off the court. Tim van vooren goes

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