A Milwaukee teenager was charged Friday in a companion's shooting death, which allegedly occurred as they robbed an armed man.

According to a criminal complaint, the robbery target, who was wounded, told police he holds a legally issued concealed-carry permit and that his 5-year-old son was with him when the two robbers confronted him with a gun.

Jovan Williams, 18, was charged with felony murder in the Oct. 19 death of Zaire J. Burris, 18, who was shot in the 3100 block of N. 27th St.

According to the complaint:

The robbery victim, who shot Burris, told investigators he is an automobile dealer and was sitting in his car waiting for his uncle to return from a test drive with a potential customer. The man's 5-year-old son was asleep in the front passenger seat when Williams tapped on the window with a .45 caliber handgun and ordered him to "give them all his stuff."

Williams held the gun to the man's head and took money from him before Burris asked Williams for the gun because he was going to kill the man.

As Williams was passing the gun to Burris, their victim pulled out a .40 caliber handgun and backed up his vehicle before he was shot in the elbow.

He then began firing at Burris and Williams while getting out of the car and moving away from the vehicle so his son would not be struck by return fire.

Burris, who was shot multiple times, fled before collapsing in the 2800 block of W. Burleigh St. He was taken to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where he was pronounced dead, according to the complaint.

The complaint did not confirm whether the intended robbery victim held a legally issued concealed-carry permit.

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The guy and his son are amazingly fortunate. Would like to know more about the perps. High on drugs? Or just plain evil/nasty?

DA ruled self-defense so it looks like the victim had a legal ccw. And Burris' friends have set up a street memorial for him. Lovely, eh.

18 and life in Waupon? Stupid fuck should have put the gun against his head after his friend got shot.

And a memorial for someone who was ready to kill a 5 year old? Really? I'm sure the story on the street is that they was just minding their biz when this dude shot them up...

wlewisiii wrote:18 and life in Waupon? Stupid fuck should have put the gun against his head after his friend got shot.

And a memorial for someone who was ready to kill a 5 year old? Really? I'm sure the story on the street is that they was just minding their biz when this dude shot them up...

Sitting here waiting for a birther to claim the dead perp is a relative of Obama's.

Sounds like dad kept his head and protected his son. Made multiple hits too.

Good for him for the outcome. Sorry for him because he's now a killer.

I am not surprised. Before I retired this was part of my territory where traced contacts to STI's and HIV. I've knocked on more than one door with bullet holes and found more than a few of the people I was looking for in the hospital with gun shot wounds or jail. It has one of the highest crime rates (if not the highest in the state).
The majority (about 99%) who live there are just trying to survive on low wage jobs.

GuitarsandGuns wrote:Sounds like dad kept his head and protected his son. Made multiple hits too.

Good for him for the outcome. Sorry for him because he's now a killer.

I think the guy had some very good training. Would like to know more.

There was a B&E and attempted armed robbery around here a couple of years ago with similar results.

Two drug addicts broke into a guy's house because they thought he was a drug dealer (he wasn't). Anyway, it all goes south and the homeowner kills one of the robbers (guy was shot, ran out of the house and bled to death a few blocks away). Accomplice was charged with the death of robber #1. He was convicted of manslaughter (and a bunch of other shit, obviously).

Here in OR an accomplice can't be charged with felony murder if the only victim is a fellow perp. I've got mixed feelings on it - there are surely cases where overzealous prosecutors have gone for the easy score and put away some clueless driver because of what her boyfriend was doing in the Stop-n-Rob while she waited for him outside.

Then again, we've seen cases of father & son home-invasion teams where you'd think the proper punishment would be to kill them both - twice. I guess in a state like OR that never executes anybody, it makes sense that they'd also be more lenient about putting away accomplices for decades when they had no blood on their hands.

I disagree with this.

It's pure stupidity.

Our police state grows everyday, this is yet another example of it.

Cops and prosecutors apparently don't care about justice anymore, just putting as many people in prison as possible. Maybe all the for profit prisons has something to do with it.

Our country is circling the toilet bowl, and this is the proof of it.

What, the shooter should have gone to jail as well?

Seriously, the surviving perpetrator got that tacked onto his other charges to reduce what could be pled out.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Stealing is wrong. Stealing from an armed man is stupid.

gaucheGlock wrote:Here in OR an accomplice can't be charged with felony murder if the only victim is a fellow perp. I've got mixed feelings on it - there are surely cases where overzealous prosecutors have gone for the easy score and put away some clueless driver because of what her boyfriend was doing in the Stop-n-Rob while she waited for him outside.

Then again, we've seen cases of father & son home-invasion teams where you'd think the proper punishment would be to kill them both - twice. I guess in a state like OR that never executes anybody, it makes sense that they'd also be more lenient about putting away accomplices for decades when they had no blood on their hands.

I think that we have too many mandatory laws like that.
Sometimes the accomplice didn't know the killer was armed until the the victim found out.
Sometimes accomplices are kids who want to hang out with someone cool and found out too late they've made a mistake.
Just treat everyone as a human and we'll be fine.

GuitarsandGuns wrote:

gaucheGlock wrote:Here in OR an accomplice can't be charged with felony murder if the only victim is a fellow perp. I've got mixed feelings on it - there are surely cases where overzealous prosecutors have gone for the easy score and put away some clueless driver because of what her boyfriend was doing in the Stop-n-Rob while she waited for him outside.

Then again, we've seen cases of father & son home-invasion teams where you'd think the proper punishment would be to kill them both - twice. I guess in a state like OR that never executes anybody, it makes sense that they'd also be more lenient about putting away accomplices for decades when they had no blood on their hands.

I think that we have too many mandatory laws like that.
Sometimes the accomplice didn't know the killer was armed until the the victim found out.
Sometimes accomplices are kids who want to hang out with someone cool and found out too late they've made a mistake.
Just treat everyone as a human and we'll be fine.

Going back more years than I want to admit, I vaguely recall in law school that with felony murder, in NY anyway, there was a requirement of reasonable forseeability that unknown to you you fellow criminal or the victim may have a leathal weapon. Too late an tired to look that up tonight.

IIRC only the US has anything like the Felony Murder Rule.

It makes perfect sense to me that a trial should probe what the accomplice knew, and when. Unfortunately, in some states the law as written forces the defendant to prove that they're innocent, rather than the normal course of events in which the prosecution must prove guilt - or at least a measure of culpability.

We live in a world of "plausible deniability," wherein everyone who protests their innocence is implicitly presumed to be playing a CYA game, and only the richest with the best legal counsel can prevail. The prisons are full of the poor, while the likes of the Hon. John Corzine walk around as free as cockroaches.

wlewisiii wrote:18 and life in Waupon? Stupid fuck should have put the gun against his head after his friend got shot.

And a memorial for someone who was ready to kill a 5 year old? Really? I'm sure the story on the street is that they was just minding their biz when this dude shot them up...

I sure hope someone defecates on that memorial.