Cellphone records and other electronic evidence connect a Milwaukee man to the 2022 shooting deaths of two Brown Deer brothers, prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office filed two counts of first-degree intentional homicide against Tamirat T. Mills, Brown Deer police said in a statement on Tuesday.
Mills, 20, is the second person charged with first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the Sept. 1, 2022, killings of Amarion Brown and Charlus Robinson, both 18.
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A jury in May found Joseph A. Tucker guilty in their slayings.
Here’s how things unfolded that night, according to prosecutors
According to a criminal complaint, Brown Deer police were called to the 8000 block of North 62nd Street, where they found the brothers dead and the teens’ mother reported her SUV as stolen.
According to the complaint, Tucker was a friend of the brothers, whom their mother knew as “Joe.” Joe spent the night at their home.
The woman said in the document she thought she heard a “pop” around 5 to 6 a.m., but went back to sleep because she wasn’t sure where it came from. The woman told investigators when she woke up, Joe was gone.
She said her daughter later went to wake up Amarion and learned he had been shot.
Another person inside the home woke up to the sound of the back door opening and a loud revving noise around 4 to 5 a.m., the document reads. That witness saw the woman’s Jeep was gone, and assumed either Amarion or Charlus was using it.
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Police got a search warrant for the property, and officers discovered Robinson’s body in the driver’s seat of a vehicle parked in the driveway. Charlus died from two gunshot wounds to the head, an autopsy later showed.
Phone records and other internet/network records show Tucker and Mills were both at the scene of the homicides around the time of the shooting, the criminal complaint reads. Surveillance footage also allegedly depicts both men taking the woman’s Jeep before abandoning it later, according to the document.
Tucker is now serving a life sentence in the brothers’ killings.
Mills also faces a charge of taking and driving a vehicle with consent, also a felony. All of the charges are filed with a party to the crime modifier, which means prosecutors only have to show the defendant participated in some role, not that he directly committed them.
Mills was scheduled to be in court on Tuesday morning for an initial appearance before Court Commissioner Andrea Bolender. Details of the outcome weren’t available late Tuesday.
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The charges against Mills were handed down Monday, online court records show.
First-degree intentional homicide is a Class A felony and carries a mandatory life sentence.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee man, 20, charged in 2022 deaths of 2 Brown Deer brothers