Milwaukee fatal shooting of 14-year-old; woman 'admitted' being shooter

Fox 6 ^ | August 21, 2024 | By Christina Van Zelst

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MILWAUKEE - A 22-year-old Milwaukee woman is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of a 14-year-old boy near 39th and Vliet. The accused is Zariah Johnson.

According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police were dispatched to the area near 39th and Vliet on Thursday, Aug. 15. Citizens had gathered and administered two doses of Narcan to the victim, thinking this was an overdose. But once medical personnel arrived on the scene, it was learned the victim had been shot in the back. Five .380 casings were located in the area.

A witness to what happened told police the victim, later identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office as Alijah Golden-Richmond, "wanted to steal a car and that as they walked by the 37th Street School (Golden-Richmond) saw the blue/green Hyundai. (Golden-Richmond) broke the window of the car and they heard a female voice from inside saw 'mmhmmm!' And they all ran northbound on N. 37th St.," the complaint says. As the group was walking, the same vehicle drove eastbound in an alley, so the group "hid on the front porch of a house and the car stopped," the complaint says. The complaint goes on to say the "woman fired in the air and they all started running. The female then 'started shooting in their direction and hit dirt by his feet.' The witness told police none of the people in their group was armed.

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This is apparently black on black. The stories say he broke her car window, but apparently a group of kids were involved and he broke it to break into her car. She talked to the police, at first denying it, but then sent she just went to scare them away. She was charged with 1st degree reckless homicide, the same as what the Apple River stabber was convicted of, not murder. Maybe in Texas she wouldn't have been charged.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m generally extremely generous with my definition of self-defense (which, for me, includes defense of property) but I have to say that firing into the air, and in the general direction of a group of people who are running away seems very reckless. A white guy would be in huge trouble. A black female might be treated more gently.

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[Phoenix8]

She looks a little they/them to me.

[Flavious_Maximus]

If Alijah Golden-Richmond smashed the window in order to steal the car, then I am glad the perp has been eliminated.

14 years old and already committing grand larceny. In the future, this dude would have gone on to commit hundreds of crimes. Good riddance, spit.

[DCBryan1]

Probably been stealing since she/it was born-Mortimer Duke

[Bigg Red]

This piece was apparently written by a 7-year-old.

Ex. ....they heard a female voice from inside saw ‘mmhmmm!’.....

It seems too much to expect even 5th grade writing competance, I guess.

[Bigg Red]

*competence

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AMEN

[Boogieman]

“Citizens had gathered and administered two doses of Narcan to the victim, thinking this was an overdose.”

Hmm...

“If naloxone is administered in the absence of concomitant opioid use, no functional pharmacological activity occurs, except the inability of the body to combat pain naturally.”

https://drugs.ncats.io/drug/36B82AMQ7N

So they may have made the victim’s final moments more painful, if he wasn’t already gone.