6 people found dead in home near North 21st and West Wright streets in Milwaukee; police investigating deaths as homicides - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

An additional victim was reported Monday as Milwaukee police investigate the deaths of six people found Sunday near North 21st and West Wright streets.

The deaths are being investigated as homicides, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office said Sunday evening.

Sunday, Milwaukee Police responded to the 2500 block of North 21st Street to assist with a welfare check at a residence, Assistant Chief Paul Formolo of the Milwaukee Police Department said during a Sunday evening news conference. .

Johnson said efforts to reduce violence will continue, and will be achieved through strengthened and improved law enforcement, community intervention and a renewed commitment to prevention. .

"This is ridiculous," Arnitta Holliman, director of Milwaukee's Office of Violence Prevention, said at the news conference.

Autopsies will be performed Monday, the medical examiner's office said

"We will do what we do, in collaboration with the Office of Violence Prevention and 414 Life to help try to deter or cease, interrupt some of this violence as much as we can.”

This weekend's death investigations in Milwaukee County included eight homicides, eight probable overdoses, five from COVID-19 and one suicide, according to a tweet from the medical examiner's office