In 2016, officer Joseph Mensah, then with the Wauwatosa Police Department, shot Alvin Cole, an armed suspect who reached for a gun during a foot chase outside a busy Wauwatosa
A former Wauwatosa Police Department officer will not face charges for fatally shooting a man in 2016 while he was sleeping in his car. This counts as the
Prosecutors declined to charge a Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man sleeping in a park, saying they couldn't combat a self-defense argument.
Due to his location and experience with homicide cases, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was selected to look into a Milwaukee County shooting involving a Wauwatosa police officer.