Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Man killed by police after kidnapping had long record

Suspect had two pending county court cases

- Bruce Vielmetti

A Milwaukee man with a criminal history dating back to at least 2006, including two pending cases in Milwaukee County, has been identified as the gunman killed by police after a kidnapping and two chases with stolen cars Friday.

David Wayne Marshall Jr. died shortly after noon on an Oak Creek sidewalk in the 6600 block of South 27th Street, the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said Saturday.

Marshall’s crime spree, which police said began early Friday morning, wound through Milwaukee County and concluded near the Franklin Walmart.

Police said at a news conference Friday that after the second car chase ended in a crash, Marshall exited with a firearm and officers opened fire.

According to court records, Marshall was charged with attempted robbery with force for a July 4, 2020, incident. While free on $500 bail, he failed to appear for a July 13, 2021, hearing and the judge issued a warrant for Marshall’s arrest. After he was picked up, his bail was increased to $1,000. He posted the extra $500 on Thursday.

He was to have no contact with the Target store at South 108th Street and West National Avenue and the BP station at South 76th Street and West Lincoln Avenue — both in West Allis — or with three individual­s identified only by initials.

Also pending was another 2020 criminal case of felony possession of amphetamin­es, resisting or obstructin­g an officer, and bail jumping — all from an incident in June 2019. That case had been set for a projected guilty plea last month, but was postponed after Marshall was accepted into Drug Treatment Court. A new hearing had been set for Sept. 28.

Before his current legal troubles, Marshall had a series of conviction­s and did time in juvenile and adult prisons, and local jails.

In 2007, he was charged with battery by a prisoner, as a party to the crime, while he was residing at Lincoln Hills, Wisconsin’s juvenile prison in Irma. He was sentenced in Dane County to a year in prison to be served after he completed the unspecified sentence he was serving for a 2006 juvenile case, and followed by three years of extended supervisio­n.

In 2009, he pleaded guilty to burglary in Milwaukee County and was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of extended supervisio­n, plus consecutiv­e years for driving a car without consent and fleeing or eluding.

In 2016, while apparently residing in Wittenberg, Marshall was charged in Shawano County with battery, and later pleaded no contest to a misdemeano­r disorderly conduct, and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Prior to the sentencing date, he was ticketed for disorderly conduct, also in Shawano County. He later pleaded no contest to that citation.

Two years later, he was charged in Langlade County with possession of a controlled substance, pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 10 days in jail.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States