hello I'm Sergeant Ephraim Cornejo as part of the Milwaukee Police Department's continuous commitment to be transparent with our community we created Community briefings to provide information to the public regarding officer-involved critical incidents Community briefings are intended to provide relevant information which may include video footage audio recordings photographs and other evidence it is our priority to release this information and inform our community as soon as possible unless releasing the information will compromise the Integrity of the investigation when watching this video keep in mind that this may still be an ongoing investigation for privacy purposes we have concealed audio and images of community members captured in this video the video you are about to see may contain officers using Force explicit language and disturbing images viewer discretion is strongly advised hello I'm inspector Paul Lau with the Milwaukee Police Department criminal investigation Bureau in this community briefing I'm going to share information regarding an officer-involved shooting which occurred on Tuesday December 20th 2022 at 3330 West Wells Street this is the location of vets Place Central which is a residential facility that offers transitional housing for homeless male and female veterans at approximately 7 37 am Milwaukee police officers were dispatched to an active shooter at this location several people called 9-1-1 from this location reporting a subject with a gun and shots fired the following is a portion of one of the 9-1-1 calls 9-1-1 what is your emergency [Music] [Applause] 3330 West Wales yes ma'am hurry up I fire shot sir yes yes okay I'm not there I'm asking you questions to get the help where is the person with the gun about three minutes ago so he just bought your shots yes ma'am Okay police officers including members of the Tactical enforcement unit responded to the scene and began searching the building for the suspect and potential victims while doing so officers encountered a suspect who was armed with a handgun in the basement of the building the suspect took physical control of two other people the officers gave commands for the suspect to drop his firearm the suspect did not adhere to those commands an officer then discharged his rifle striking the suspect once in the head medical attention was given to the suspect however he didn't survive the suspect the 66-year-old Milwaukee man was pronounced deceased at the scene no sir come on [ __ ] guys yeah watch yourself honest slow down sir let me see your hands he's got a gun he's got a gun oh he's got a gun oh it's a hostage sure it's a hostage sir drop the gun sir drop your guns sir shots fired suspect dog shots fired suspect dog hey get him out of here hey come here come come get out of here don't reach don't reach or anything get medical oh goodness the suspect's firearm and one casing were recovered no officers or other members of the community were injured during the incident this investigation is being conducted by the Milwaukee area investigative team with the Oak Creek police department as the lead agency the investigation is still ongoing as per standard operating procedures the officer remains an administrative Duty pending the outcome of the investigation which is still under review by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office