Two individuals had been shot throughout a service at southeast Wisconsin cemetery Thursday as family members had been paying their ultimate respects to a 37-year-old man, police mentioned,
One of many individuals shot about 2:30 p.m. in Racine at Graceland Cemetery was flown to a hospital in Milwaukee, she mentioned. The opposite has been handled and launched. Their situations weren’t instantly accessible.
The gunfire erupted as mourners at Graceland had been saying goodbye to Da’Shontay Lucas King Sr., mentioned a consultant of Draeger-Langendorg Funeral Residence and Crematory.
No arrests had been made as of Thursday night, Wilcox mentioned. The capturing was below investigation.
Photographs from the cemetery confirmed crime scene tape and legislation enforcement officers round a white casket that had but to be lowered into the grave.
The cemetery in Racine is about 30 miles south of downtown Milwaukee and fewer than 4 miles west of Lake Michigan.
The incident follows lethal mass shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and New Orleans. A wave of gun violence additionally hit a number of cities over the Memorial Day weekend, leaving not less than 156 individuals useless and 412 injured from 5 p.m. Friday to five a.m. Tuesday, in response to a preliminary rely by The Gun Violence Archive.
Suzanne Ciechalski and Phil Helsel contributed.
