Milwaukee Officer Jerving shooting, bodycam video released

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Division on Thursday, April 6 launched physique digital camera video associated to the deadly capturing involving Officer Peter Jerving and theft suspect Terrell Thompson.

The capturing occurred close to 14th and Cleveland round 1:15 a.m. on Feb. 7. Hours earlier, police mentioned Jerving and his companion responded to a theft close to Teutonia and Good Hope the place Thompson, 19, was recognized because the suspect who stole a automobile and cellphone. 

By their investigation, police mentioned Jerving and his companion acquired info that Thompson and the automobile had been close to 14th and Cleveland. The officers arrived and located the automobile and Thompson. The physique digital camera footage exhibits officers name Thompson by his first title and inform him to not run. Nonetheless, as seen on video, Thompson ran off round an condo constructing. He later fell within the snow.

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Police mentioned Thompson pulled out a gun and fired it a number of instances on the officers. Jerving disengaged, drew his weapon and reported pictures fired. When he returned to help his companion, he and Thompson exchanged gunfire.

Each Jerving and Thompson sustained a number of gunshot wounds. Jerving died at a hospital, and Thompson died on the scene after receiving consideration from first responders. No different accidents had been reported.

The Brookfield Police Division led the investigation with assist from the Wisconsin Regional Crime Lab. The investigation discovered no different officers, together with Jerving’s companion, fired their weapons. Each Jerving and Thompson’s weapons had been recovered on the scene.

No officers had been positioned on administrative responsibility because of the capturing. The matter will nonetheless be referred to the Milwaukee County District Legal professional’s Workplace for assessment.

Officer Peter Jerving’s service weapon

Terrell Thompson’s firearm

Jerving’s ardour to serve

Jerving was a lifelong Milwaukee resident and embellished officer, honored by the police division in fall 2022 for saving somebody’s life in June.

MPD mentioned Jerving acquired the award “for heroically offering lifesaving care to a capturing sufferer throughout extraordinarily harmful situations.” Officer Jerving grabbed a hearth extinguisher and helped save a person in a burning car who had been shot. He had 4 years of service with the police division and labored at Police District 4.

Jerving was roughly midway by means of his research for a bachelor’s of science in legal justice at Marian College when he was killed. One one who learn what Jerving wrote for sophistication referred to as it a “plan for his neighborhood from the grave.” 

FOX6 Information discovered Thompson was in courtroom on Feb. 6 – the day earlier than the shootout – for a 2021 case and pleaded responsible to inflicting a hit-and-run.

Court docket data point out Choose Christopher Dee ordered Thompson to serve 120 days within the Milwaukee County Neighborhood Reintegration Heart, previously the Home of Correction, however stayed that sentence in favor of 12 months of probation. It means Thompson solely needed to serve time if he violated the situations of his probation.

The shootout that left each Jerving and Thompson lifeless occurred greater than two years after the 19-year-old blew a pink mild at Sherman and Bradley in Milwaukee after which ran away from the crash scene – a year-and-a-half after he hit two extra vehicles in a single night time and ran away once more.

Throughout his sentencing, Thompson apologized and referred to as the hit-and-run crashes a “life studying lesson.” His lawyer acknowledged he was dealing with 120 days in jail, including, “fortunately, the state’s not asking for it.” The choose advised Thompson: “You bought the good thing about a superb discount.”

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Fourteen hours later, Milwaukee police say Jerving paid the value. Thompson barely made it 12 hours earlier than police say he dedicated an armed theft, and two hours after that, they are saying he was concerned within the shootout with Jerving.

On the sentencing listening to, Thompson’s legal professional mentioned he had a supportive mom, he was pursuing his GED, had a job portray vehicles together with his cousin and even had a job interview scheduled for the day of the shootout. All of that performed into the choice to launch him on probation for a yr.