Milwaukee Juneteenth shooting: Teen charged as adult headed to trial
MILWAUKEE - The teen accused of shooting and wounding several people after last year's Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration is headed to trial in adult court.
Arnez Lee-King, 16, is charged with six counts of first-degree reckless injury and one count of possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent.
In court, Lee-King's defense attorney tried to point to one shooting victim – who is seen on video with a gun as well – who did not pick the teen out of a lineup. A police detective said the teen identified himself in the same video after his arrest.
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Defense Attorney Morgan Minter: "Who identifies him before he gets arrested?"
MPD Det. Phillip Ferguson: "Mr. Parsons identifies him in the video, and then (Arnez Lee-King) gets arrested, and he identifies himself on the same video."
That video is a key piece of evidence about what happened that June afternoon.
Arnez Lee-King on video prior to Juneteenth shooting
Police said a fight among girls escalated when boys got involved. Prosecutors said Lee-King was seen on video wearing a black hoodie with blue writing. He stumbled out of a fight and out of view of the camera, then another boy pulled out a gun and fumbled with it. Lee-King fired his gun at least four times into the group.
Six people were shot, some of whom suffered serious injuries.
At the time, Lee-King was on electronic monitoring for a gun arrest in Wauwatosa that took place a couple of months before the shooting. The detective said GPS coordinates placed him at the scene of the Juneteenth shooting; he was supposed to be under adult supervision at the time.
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Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Owen Piotrowski: "Did his GPS coordinates put him at the scene of the shooting?"
Ferguson: "It did."
The case was originally brought in juvenile court. A judge waived the case into adult court in February. Lee-King pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Lee-King also has a juvenile felony conviction for an armed robbery at age 13.