Milwaukee police have identified an officer who was shot this week during an exchange of gunfire with a man running from a vehicle that had crashed during a police chase.
Officer Robert Parks, 32, was shot in the leg. His partner, Officer Adam Maritato, 33, was not injured, according to a Friday news release.
Major Artis, the 24-year-old man accused of shooting the officer, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound soon after the incident, police said.
Milwaukee police released the names and photos of the officers and Artis on Friday.
Artis' family has said they do not believe he would kill himself. A relative told the Journal Sentinel Friday his mother "hates that an officer got shot," but remains concerned because she has not been contacted by police, nor seen evidence showing Artis was the shooter.
According to initial information provided by Milwaukee police:
Officers saw a vehicle speeding and driving recklessly shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday near North Teutonia Avenue at West Roosevelt Drive.
Officers tried to pull the vehicle over. Instead, the driver took off and led police on a chase.
About a minute later, the vehicle crashed into a pole on Teutonia Avenue, just north of Hampton Avenue.
Three men ran from the vehicle. Two of them, ages 26 and 31, were arrested.
The third man who ran from the vehicle, later identified as Artis, shot at the two officers, hitting Parks.
Parks and Maritato returned fire. Artis continued to run away.
Officer found Artis about an hour later, at 2:07 a.m., inside of a garage. He appeared to have shot himself, police said. A gun was found at the scene.
Parks was taken to a hospital for treatment and released later that day.
The two men arrested after the crash have been referred to the District Attorney's office for possible charges. The two officers have been placed on administrative duty, per department policy.
The department's Criminal Investigation Bureau is investigating the shooting. The Milwaukee Police Department did not immediately respond to a question Friday asking if any part of the incident was captured on body cameras or dash cams.
Under Chief Alfonso Morales, the department has set a goal of releasing at least portions of body camera video of officer-involved shootings within 45 days in what police officials call community briefings.
However, police officials have not formally characterized this as an officer-involved shooting because initial information indicates the officers' gunfire did not hit Artis, and it was not clear Friday if the department would try to release any footage in that time frame.
After the shooting, Dale Bormann Jr., president of the Milwaukee Police Association, said officers "put their lives on the line to protect the citizens of Milwaukee each and every day" and asked for prayers for the officers, their families and their colleagues.
Contact Ashley Luthern at ashley.luthern@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @aluthern.
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2020-02-07 23:45:00Z
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