MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee woman, charged after a 4-year-old girl was killed last year, was sentenced to probation on Thursday.

Woman sentenced

In court:

Derreanna Little, 26, was originally charged with felony child neglect. Court records show she ultimately pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in March.

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Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski initially sentenced Little to serve time in the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center. However, the judge stayed that sentence and instead placed Little on probation.

Little is also ordered to complete 200 hours of community service as a condition of her probation. One hundred of those hours are to be performed at a Milwaukee high school to speak about the danger of guns, according to court records.

Anthony Brookshire, Little’s codefendant in the case, has already been sentenced to 15 years in prison and seven years of extended supervision. In December 2025, he pleaded guilty to two of the four charges filed against him, including second-degree reckless homicide, and the other charges were dismissed as part of a plea deal.

4-year-old killed

The backstory:

It happened near 39th and Sheridan on the night of Feb. 17, 2025. A criminal complaint said Little called 911, but when the dispatcher asked what the emergency, she didn’t respond and could be heard screaming. The call disconnected moments later.

On a second call to 911, court filings said Little was heard saying “stay with me, stay with me” and “it’s OK, you hear me, stay woke.” Shen then yelled, “Anthony, go get my baby.” There was no direct communication with the dispatcher.

Milwaukee police were dispatched to investigate the 911 call. When officers spoke to Little, the complaint said she told them her 4-year-old niece had been shot. The child was later identified as Jainadia Little. 

Prosecutors said Little refused to disclose where the shooting happened. She claimed the 4-year-old and a 1-year-old were in a bedroom when she heard a gun go off. She told police she went to the bedroom, and the 1-year-old was holding a gun.

After the shooting, court filings indicated that Brookshire and Little took the wounded 4-year-old girl to a hospital. The girl died there during the early morning on Feb. 18, 2025.

Evidence secured

Dig deeper:

Milwaukee police detectives scoured the shooting scene and collected evidence. The complaint said they found blood spatter near a hole in a deflated air mattress in a bedroom, and a single bullet casing was found on the air mattress. There were also numerous pieces of mail, addressed to Brookshire, in the bedroom.

Detectives found an empty drum magazine and two empty extended magazines inside a backpack in the home’s living room, court filings said. 

In a vehicle that was parked outside, prosecutors said police found a loaded semi-automatic handgun “in plain view on the floor.” They also found another semi-automatic gun with a loaded, extended magazine.

Detectives pulled three fingerprints from the handgun that was “in plain view.” Court filings said all three prints matched Brookshire.

Investigators conducted three separate interviews with Brookshire and two with Little. The complaint said, during those interviews, the accounts of what happened from both Brookshire and Little changed multiple times.

• Bucks coach Doc Rivers expressed frustration that Giannis Antetokounmpo’s desire to play despite injury is a public issue.
• Antetokounmpo has publicly stated he feels healthy enough to play after being sidelined with a knee hyperextension.
• Rivers believes coaches should not have to publicly answer for medical decisions they do not make.

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers expressed dismay over the public nature of star Giannis Antetokounmpo’s frustration with the team over not being able to play following a hyperextension of his left knee on March 15.

Antetokounmpo had been ruled out since the Bucks’ game against Cleveland on March 17 through their loss to Boston on April 3. Before the game, Antetokounmpo spoke publicly for the first time about being held out despite his belief that he is healthy. He repeated that he is available and doesn’t understand why he can’t play, and noted that he had gone through live workouts in the hopes of being cleared.

After the game, Rivers was asked what he had been told about Antetokounmpo’s progress to a return.

“I’ve been told the same thing,” Rivers said of the workouts.

He then took issue with the fact he has had to answer questions about Antetokounmpo’s availability, or lack thereof.

“The tough part of all this is I’m in the middle and I have nothing to do with it,” Rivers continued. “Coaches don’t decide any of this, but the problem with our league is the coaches are the ones sitting out front and we have to sit here and answer this stuff. And I think there are two sides to this. I will tell you that, but I don’t want to get too involved in it. I talk to Giannis all the time about what he should be working on. Literally, I stay right there in that zone about things that I think he needs to add to his game and that’s it. I decided long ago that’s not for me to get involved in the rest of this stuff. I don’t like it though. I don’t.

“I think this is a grown man’s game and it should be handled that way by everybody. So I don’t like when it’s this ‘he said, she said’ stuff, it’s not good. So, just from that seat, the fact that I have to sit up here and keep addressing it, it bothers me. And we need to do something about it.”

The Journal Sentinel reported that the NBA, along with the National Basketball Players Association, has interviewed Antetokounmpo and members of the organization to determine if the two-time MVP is indeed healthy, and when asked about those conversations Rivers quickly demurred.

“Again, I wouldn’t know any of that,” he said. “That’s the point I’m trying to make. The league, they’re not gonna call me about this. They know I have no decision-making in this. And if they have decided to start talking to us, this is the first I’ve heard it. So, I don’t even know that. Nor should I, nor should I, but I just don’t like that this is so public. And it shouldn’t be. This is where grown men get in a room and they talk it out. Whether they agree or disagree, that doesn’t matter. But this should not be in public. And I don’t like that.”

Finally, Rivers was asked if he held any concern that the dispute would affect the team’s relationship with Antetokounmpo. For his part, Antetokounmpo said he did not like the situation but didn’t go so far as to say it would be permanently damaging.

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“You know, I don’t know,” Rivers said. “I have a great relationship with him. I know that part. Literally we talk most every day, or every day that we can around each other. So, I think there’s a lot for business to be done and, you know, I’m out of the business of trying this subliminal messaging or all that crap. I’ve heard all the stuff. I just want everybody to be on the same side. ‘Cause they deserve it. All of ‘em. I don’t think there’s a bad person in this group, none of the guys that I’m talking about. I do. I think they’re all good people. But we gotta figure out how to put good people on the same page and it stays inside. I’ve never been a fan of negotiating in the media. I don’t think it’s good for anybody.”

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The Milwaukee Bucks will be on the search for a new TV broadcast home after the season, with official word that Main Street Sports is closing its regional-sports network operation.

Main Street, which oversees the FanDuel Sports Wisconsin network that carried Milwaukee Brewers games before 2026 and still carries Bucks games, will no longer carry games for a slew of NBA teams in addition to Milwaukee. All those teams will be free to find new in-market deals for 2026-27.

The news doesn’t come as a surprise for the floundering sports group, but it does leave Bucks broadcasts next year in limbo.

According to the Sports Business Journal:

“For linear – where the rights fees will likely be under $10M annually – many of those teams could either switch to local over-the-air channels or their own in-house networks, such as the Cavaliers’ Rock Entertainment Sports Network.

“For streaming (and even linear, as well), the NBA is urging teams to sign one-year deals or packages with at least a one-year exit clause, in the event the league does not launch a national streaming platform until the 2027-28 season.

“But sources said there is a sense multiple teams could shift to a streaming-only template for next season with platforms such as DAZN or Victory+ – which would be a first for NBA teams.”

In other words, wherever the Bucks land next year, it could be a different model than what fans have known in recent years – and it could be temporary.

Main Street ended its relationship with a number of baseball teams after the 2025 season, with Brewers games now produced by Major League Baseball. Among new agreements with a variety of providers, games are now streamed on the Brewers.TV platform operated by MLB.

SBJ also indicated none of Main Street’s 13 NBA teams have received local media rights payments in 2026, though each team could receive as much as 60% of their lost TV money from Main Street’s creditors once they sign a dissolution agreement.