96th and Brown Deer homicide; US Marshals arrest Milwaukee man

MILWAUKEE – U.S. Marshals on Thursday, Could 26 arrested a Milwaukee man wished for murder.

Roger Powell, 44, is charged within the deadly capturing of 24-year-old Stefan Owens close to 96th Road and Brown Deer Street earlier this 12 months. He’s charged with first-degree intentional murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.

In keeping with a felony grievance, Milwaukee police had been dispatched to the capturing scene on March 17. Officers arrived and located the sufferer, Owens, lifeless within the driver’s seat of a automobile. Officers mentioned he died as the results of a number of gunshot wounds.

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Milwaukee police reviewed surveillance video from a close-by church and faculty. Video reveals a dark-colored automobile pull up subsequent to Owens’ automobile. Detectives said within the video you’ll be able to “hear yelling, as if the 2 vehicles are speaking.”

Later, the grievance states, Powell “walks as much as the driving force’s aspect window of (Owens’) automobile, raises his proper hand, and fires 5 pictures by way of (Owens’) driver’s aspect window” earlier than strolling again to the dark-colored automobile, which then drove off.

Stefan Owens (picture supplied by household)

Detectives spoke with a girl who was on the murder scene. The girl informed officers Owens was the daddy of her little one, that they’d been in a relationship for a number of years, and broke up final September. The girl mentioned Owens “has been threatening her, hitting her, and damaging her property,” the grievance states.

The girl informed police earlier that night that she was in a automobile along with her little one when Owens pulled up subsequent to her and informed her to roll down the window. The girl didn’t do that and drove off – however the grievance states Owens stored following her, “so she referred to as her brother, the defendant, Roger Powell. (The girl) mentioned that she requested the defendant to escort her inside her home as a result of she was scared, however the defendant informed her he wasn’t close by.”

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When the lady went again towards her home, she observed Owens’ automobile parked on the intersection. The grievance states “she noticed the automobile was stopped and could not see (Owens), so she drove as much as his automobile and noticed him slumped over and bleeding.” She referred to as 911 and “mentioned that the defendant might have shot (Owens) however that she didn’t witness the capturing.”

Powell was charged on April 7, and a warrant was issued for his arrest that very same day. He was on the run for weeks earlier than being captured by U.S. Marshals.