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6 People Found Killed Execution-Style in Home Invasion: Police Speculation Heats Up

On Jan. 23 at around 3:45 p.m., officers with the Milwaukee Police Department were performing a welfare check when they made a gruesome discovery. They found five bodies in a home on the 2500 block of North 21st Street…

IJR SyndicatedJan 30, 20223 min read

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The first indication that something was wrong for Lavinia Hardy, Charles Hardy’s sister, was the inability to contact her brother by phone. She said her brother was a kind, quiet man.

“When I called him, he didn’t answer,” Hardy said, Fox reported. “I don’t have the words for it.”

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Those who know the victims have said they have no idea what could have led to their deaths.

“He took people in when they don’t have a place to go,” Smith said of Donald Smith, the U.K. Daily Mail reported. “I don’t know why somebody would do this to them. I don’t.”

WISN-TV managed to obtain court documents showing that three of the victims’ names were listed “on a witness list for a pending homicide case in Milwaukee County Court.”

At least one neighbor said she heard something suspicious going on, but that suspicious goings-on were not unusual for the area.

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“I heard something, but you know, after you hear shots so often, after a while you stop paying it attention,” Alice Cartwright said, according to WISN-TV. “I heard it. But I didn’t really pay it that much of attention. Because it happens so often.

“Yesterday I didn’t see nobody. But I heard people coming over knocking. But nobody never answered the door. So I couldn’t figure what was going on with that.”

Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman revealed on Thursday during a news conference that a woman had called to report a shooting 12 hours before the house was searched and the bodies were found.

She allegedly claimed she and several others were victims and gave two addresses, but neither of them belonged to the house — though they were all in the same area.

Authorities identified and located the woman and found her uninjured. Her potential connection to the case is being investigated.

“We are still looking into all angles,” Norman said, according to WISN-TV. “Obviously, you never want to use one explanation for a particular incident and stick to that; understanding that there might be some other angles we have to explore.

“At this time, we’re pretty sure that that is not relative to this particular incident, but we never want to take away any particular explanation for what we’re finding in this investigation.”

Four adults were arrested in connection to the incident.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.