Neighborhood feud leads to gun battle in the street: Five people suffer gunshot wounds



MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- A gun battle in the street leaves multiple victims with gunshot wounds. Milwaukee police say feuding neighbors turned violent on Thursday afternoon, June 26th near 24th and Locust.

Five people were shot.

The shooting happened around 3:15 p.m.

Police say dozens of shots were fired, as a neighborhood turned into a warzone.

"I just heard a bunch of shots. I thought it was firecrackers at first. It sounded like a bunch of them in a row -- back to back, very rapidly," Marvin Ealy said.

Ealy was at work -- steps away from the scene.

"I look out the window, I see a young lady on the ground," Ealy said.

Yellow tape blocked the road as dozens of squad cars and officers responded to the scene.

"So far, we've accounted for almost three dozen shell casings," Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said.

Police say a fight between those living in two homes in the neighborhood that began Wednesday night carried over into Thursday afternoon.

"Someone from one of the houses approached residents of the other house armed with firearms and commenced firing," Chief Flynn said.

Five people were shot.

Two men and three women were wounded.

One woman is in critical condition. A bullet hit her leg -- striking her femoral artery.

"One of our police officers, a veteran of Afghanistan, applied a department-issued tourniquet and stopped the bleeding," Chief Flynn said.

It's a sad scene that has become all too familiar in Milwaukee.

Neighbors want it to stop.

"We just need to put the guns down. Stop the violence, and start thinking about each other," a neighbor said.

Police say their ShotSpotter technology detected several dozen shots in the area.

At the same time, an off-duty police officer heard those shots and was first on the scene.

Police have made no arrests at this time.

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