Milwaukee firefighter charged for beating man; man's family speaks out
MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee firefighter and his brother were charged with beating an accused burglar earlier this month.
27-year-old Jalon Nutt was charged with burglary on Friday.
His family said he almost died after being beaten by two brothers whose home prosecutors say he entered. While they agree everyone should be held accountable, it's the manner he was beaten that isn't sitting right.
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"What happened that led up to this?" Shadmeshabed Kinney, Nutt’s mother asked.
It’s a question his family can’t shake.
"If my brother was wrong he should be accountable for his actions," his brother Dwayne Evans said. "But that still gives no human a right to treat another human that way."
The Milwaukee firefighter, 37-year-old Ty Dright-Jackson and his brother, 33-year-old Tramel Dright, are accused of severely beating Nutt after he entered their home. They are charged with first-degree reckless injury.
It happened near 31st and Juneau.
Prosecutors describe surveillance video that shows the brothers violently beating Nutt in an alley, dragging him back towards their house and beating him with a bat.
"The fact that they were stomping on his head that many times – I mean to me they killed him," his mother said.
Milwaukee firefighter, his brother charged with beating a man
A firefighter with the Milwaukee Fire Department was taken into custody and is facing felony charges.
She said he had to be resuscitated twice.
"I do believe that is an act of unkind and evil," Evans said.
Nutt's family addressed his previous burglary convictions, but it's the way he was beaten that's keeping them up at night.
"You a firefighter. You are supposed to protect and serve," his brother Darrin Kinney said. "And you’re stomping on him over 20-50 times, and he’s screaming."
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An attorney for the two brothers says they were defending themselves and their kids, and sent a statement that reads in part, "a man who came into their home was not an "Uninvited person" as described by the DA – he was a stranger and an intruder who broke in. Their response to that threat is now being labeled a crime by the da.."
Nutt's mom says he's conscious now. He is in custody.
Dright and Dright-Jackson are out on $5,000 bonds.