Milwaukee, WI
Woman sentenced for obstructing Milwaukee police investigation into 4-year-old’s death
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.
Anthony Brookshire, Derreanna Little
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.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and Wisconsin Circuit Court.
MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Police Department requested the public’s help to find 11-year-old Sir’Charles Bason, a critically missing boy who was last seen near Teutonia and Kiley at around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 18.
Police described Bason as 4 feet, 5 inches tall with a slim build, brown eyes and black, low-cut hair. He was last seen wearing a gray jacket with green lines, dark-colored jeans, tan sandals and carrying gray Nike Jordan shoes.
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What you can do:
Anyone with information on Bason’s whereabouts is asked to call Milwaukee Police District 4 at 414-935-7242.
The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department released information.
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man, previously named one of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted, has been sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his cousin in 2020.
In court
What we know:
A Milwaukee County jury found 39-year-old Brandon Gladney guilty of first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firm by a felon earlier this year.
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Judge Michelle Havas sentenced Gladney to 29 years in prison on Friday, April 17. He was granted credit for more than a year’s time served and further sentenced to 14 years of extended supervision.
Arrested in Arizona after years on the run, court records show Gladney has also been ordered to pay the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office more than $1,800 for extradition costs.
Homicide investigation
The backstory:
The shooting happened in May 2020. Investigators said Gladney was captured on video apparently arguing with the victim, his cousin, outside a Milwaukee convenience store near 21st and Meinecke.
“It’s all on video, and it’s devastating for that family,” the marshal on the case told FOX6 when Gladney was profiled on Wisconsin’s Most Wanted. “You have a family member that shot and killed another family member.”
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Prosecutors said Gladney walked away but then returned with a gun pointed directly at the victim and shot him. The victim died from his gunshot wounds at a nearby hospital. Multiple bullet casings were found at the scene.
Gladney went on the run for years. He was arrested in Arizona in January 2023, years after he was charged.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Circuit Court and prior coverage.
Brice Turang slides to home plate to score during a game between the Miami Marlins and the Milwaukee Brewers on April 17. (Photo by Chris Arjoon/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MIAMI – Garrett Mitchell went 2 for 4 with three RBIs including a two-run double in the 10th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Miami Marlins 7-5 on Friday night.
By the numbers:
Miami’s Calvin Faucher (1-2) entered a 4-all game in the 10th and walked Gary Sánchez with Brice Turang on second. Jake Bauers hit a single to load the bases.
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Luis Rengifo reached first on a throwing error by second baseman Xavier Edwards, allowing Turang to score. Mitchell followed with his double.
The Marlins scored one run in the bottom of the 10th when Jakob Marsee came home on Trevor Megill’s wild pitch. Megill settled in for his fourth save.
Coleman Crow, who made his debut on the mound for the Brewers, threw 77 pitches over 5 1/3 innings. He threw four strikeouts, gave up two earned runs and a walk.
The right-hander was 2-0 with a 4.07 ERA in two starts with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He missed part of the 2023 season and all of 2024 after undergoing Tommy John surgery.
The Brewers scored three runs in the fourth inning. With the bases loaded, Mitchell hit an RBI single, Bauers scored on a forceout at first and Rengifo scored on a throwing error by catcher Agustín Ramírez.
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Miami’s Otto Lopez hit a triple to center field in the fourth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Owen Caissie. Lopez hit a two-run homer in the sixth to pull Miami within 4-3 and Ramírez doubled in the eighth to tie the game at four.
Abner Uribe (1-0) earned his first win of the season, coming on in the ninth inning.
Marlins third baseman Graham Pauley left the game in the seventh inning with right oblique discomfort after spinning out of the way of a pitch.
What’s next:
The Brewers and Marlins continue their 3-game series on Saturday, with Brandon Woodruff (1-0, 4.36 ERA) taking the mound for Milwaukee and Sandy Alcantara (2-1, 2.67) for Miami.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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