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A 15-year-old boy and one other individual are in custody after the body of a five-year-old boy was found in a Milwaukee dumpster.

The boy, Prince McCree, was reported missing on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Milwaukee police. The boy's body was located on Thursday.

Police are currently investigating a cause of death, and said the investigation was being treated as a homicide.
The child was last seen at his home on Wednesday morning. His parents realised he was missing around 1pm on Wednesday, and traveled door-to-door asking after him that evening, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Police issued a "critically missing" alert for the boy around 8.30pm that evening. An Amber Alert was not issued because police did not have enough information about a potential suspect or vehicle to pass along to the public.

The dumpster where his body was found was approximately a mile away from his home.
In addition to the 15-year-old, a 27-year-old man was also taken into custody. Both are being treated as "persons of interest," meaning they are not currently considered suspects but individuals who may have more information on the child's disappearance and death.

State Senator LaTonya Johnson, who lives near the family, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the two persons of interest lived in the child's home, but said she was not aware of what relation they have to the family.
 
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David Pietura

Five-year-old Prince McCree's body was found in a dumpster in Milwaukee last week. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, McCree's father had to be taken out of court after an outburst.

The tensions and emotions were running high as one of the two people charged with killing his son faced a judge.
FOX6 News cannot show you what happened because of judge's orders. But we can tell you it took at least three deputies to hold McCree's father back. He shouted at the 16-year-old accused of killing his son and tossing his body in a dumpster.
"And Mr. Pietura’s confessions that he made to the Milwaukee Police Department that outlined in great detail, especially the second confession, his active participation in the brutal beating and death of 5-year-old Prince," said Matthew Torbenson, prosecutor.

Prosecutors say 27-year-old David Pietura and a 15-year-old boy admitted to playing a role in the gruesome death of Prince McCree. Investigators say Pietura and the teen beat the 5-year-old to death before trying to cover it up.
Prosecutors say McCree lived in a home with at least nine others – including his parents and siblings. Investigators say his accused killers lived in different sections of the house.

The criminal complaint says on Oct. 25, McCree stayed home from school because he was sick. His mom told investigators McCree went into the basement to play video games with Pietura. She went back to sleep – never to see her son alive again.
Prosecutors say the teenager admitted to strangling McCree. Investigators believe the 5-year-old was hit with a gold club and a barbell and stomped on – before his body was carried to a dumpster.

"That confession is verified by the investigation of the Milwaukee Police Department, which conducted the scene investigation. In the segment of the residence which shows a significant amount of blood that was later cleaned up," Torbenson said.
The teenager appeared in Children's Court on Tuesday.
"The charges in the complaint are extremely serious and extremely grave ones," Judge Laura Gramling Perez said.

"He admits to not only committing the brutal murder of 5-year-old (Prince McCree) but also admits of stabbing multiple members on our community in the back, in the neck, because he had nothing better to do," Torbenson said.
Pietura faced an adult court judge. Both are charged with homicide, hiding a corpse and abuse of a child.
 
WTF? I mean...there are so many questions! These don't appear to be the usual suspects, not DOTM or child molester/abductors. It appears they lived in a duplex/multiplex and there was a shared basement? But they beat this child like he was a rival gang member or something?! This is so bizarre.
 
I’m not blaming the mother and obviously the pieces of shit who murdered this beautiful child need to die, but….I’m a little confused as to why, if you keep your child home from school because he’s sick, you just let him go down into the basement to play video games? She then goes back to sleep and doesn’t check on him until 1:00 in the afternoon?!?
 
David Pietura, one of two people accused of killing 5-year-old Prince McCree and hiding his body in a dumpster last October, entered a guilty plea in court.

The plea agreement, reached Monday morning, includes the dismissal of two other felony charges against Pietura.
Prosecutors allege that Pietura, 27, and Erik Mendoza, 15, brutally beat McCree, bound his body, and discarded it in a dumpster.
Before the plea deal was accepted by Judge Jean Kies, she first read aloud portions of the criminal complaint -- detailing the crimes against McCree, and how Pietura was involved.

"Knowing all that information, Mr. Pietura, how do you plead to Count 1, first-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime?" asked Judge Jean Kies in court Monday.

"Guilty," replied Pietura.
In court Monday, Pietura insisted Mendoza was the instigator, and did most of the beating, but Pietura did ultimately take responsibility for his role in McCree's death.

Pietura's guilty plea carries a mandatory minimum of life in prison. However, the deal offers him the chance to be eligible for parole after 20 years in prison possibly.
"Under the circumstances, it was the best deal Mr. Pietura could hope for," said Russell Jones, Pietura's defense attorney. "He was charged with two A-Class felonies, which carry two life sentences. Now, he only has one life sentence. And more importantly, by taking responsibility for his actions, by admitting what he did, and by being cooperative in not putting the family through a trial, I think that gives him a chance where a judge might give him the chance for parole in the future."

As a part of the deal, prosecutors have dismissed physical abuse of a child, repeated acts causing death and hiding a corpse charges against Pietura.
 
This picture made me cry just the way his head is tilted and the leaf on his ear is so reminiscent of my boys.Im so sorry beautiful boy.RiP Prince.
I don’t want to judge anyone because I don’t know them or their situation but what is with these mothers going to sleep when they have little children?Your little boy was sick enough to miss school why are you back in bed?! I can’t sleep during the day but even if I could I don’t.im afraid that I might miss a call in regards to my boys.So many stories include the mother/father/parents were sleeping.How can your brain allow you to sleep when you have little kids? Again I’m not judging anyone for sleeping during the day I simply mean if you have little kids(especially a sick one) don’t get to sleep. I hope everyone understands what I mean.:/
 
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For his role in the killing of five-year-old Prince McCree, 27-year-old David Pietura was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday afternoon.
“He was always nice to my baby. My baby loved him. To know all this happened. I don’t know how he could sit here and say he loved my son, no he didn’t,” Prince’s mother Jordan Barger said in a victim impact statement.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Jean Marie Kies handed down the maximum sentence after hearing graphic descriptions of the crime from prosecutors and emotional testimony from McCree’s family.

“The community needs to be protected from you and from your actions,” Kies said moments before announcing the sentence.
Prosecutors said that McCree was beaten to death in his house by Pietura and 16-year-old Erik Mendoza and left in a dumpster last October.

Pietura pleaded guilty to the charge of first-degree intentional homicide in June. As part of a plea deal, charges of child neglect and hiding a corpse were dismissed.



Pietura addressing the court.
 
I am relieved that the 16-year-old (Erik Mendoza) is being tried as an adult. It sucks that he will still have the chance of parole since he is a minor.

All accounts have said he was responsible for violence visited upon this child.

I want to know why these two people were in the home and access to the child.

From the mom's mouth she said Pietura was always nice to Prince and that the boy loved him - so why?
 
Erik Mendoza, 18, was set to go on trial for the murder of 5-year-old Prince McCree, whose beaten body was found wrapped in garbage bags and thrown in a dumpster on Oct. 26, 2023. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse, and three charges of reckless endangerment. Mendoza, who was 15 years old at the time of the killing, was arrested along with David Pietura Jr., 29.
Pietura pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime in June 2024 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Mendoza's sentencing is scheduled for June 5.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime, Mendoza and Pietura lived in the same house where Prince and his mother lived. On Oct. 25, 2023, the day he went missing, Prince's mother kept him home from school because he woke up with a sore throat.
Late that morning, Prince ventured down to the home's basement to play video games. His mother went back to sleep, leaving Prince under the supervision of Pietura, who lived in the basement. After she went food shopping, Prince's mother went to the basement to find her son. All the lights were turned off and no one was there. When she encountered Pietura, he told her he had not seen Prince.
Prince's mother called the police, who came to look around the property. Detectives found blood on the basement floor and asked Pietura about it. Pietura claimed that he and Mendoza were "roughhousing," and Mendoza ended up with a bloody nose.
As detectives moved throughout the property, they found blood in more locations. When they questioned Pietura, he provided a story that was quickly debunked by his own cellphone records. Detectives also noticed "a large amount of blood" on Pietura's right leg. Pietura was arrested for obstruction while the search for Prince continued.
On Oct. 26, 2023, a K-9 unit detected human decomposition on the property. Using Bluestar — described in the probable cause affidavit as "a reagent used to reveal blood stains that have been washed out, wiped away, or are invisible to the naked eye" — detectives found more blood throughout the basement, and they questioned Pietura again. Pietura told detectives he witnessed Mendoza beating Prince with a golf club, and that they would find the golf club next to a furnace. Investigators located the golf club. Pietura also told police that he saw Mendoza "choking and beating" Prince.
Prince's body was recovered later the same morning, "blood soaked, bound, and gagged." He was wrapped in duct tape and several white garbage bags. Police said "it was clear" that the boy had been dead for "some time."

Police recovered surveillance video from the neighborhood that caught Pietura and Mendoza disposing of Prince's body on the afternoon of Oct. 25, 2023.
After finding Prince's body, police arrested Mendoza on the afternoon of Oct. 26, 2023. Detectives confronted Mendoza with the video and the condition of Prince's body, and he eventually admitted, "I strangled him." He also admitted to striking the boy with the golf club, saying he knew he was still alive because he was "foaming from the mouth and crying."
Mendoza and Pietura then took the boy outside, where Mendoza said he stomped on Prince's head about 10 times. He "punched and kicked" the boy until he was "lifeless," then both he and Pietura prepared to dispose of the 5-year-old. Pietura later admitted that he also took part in beating Prince in an attempt to keep him quiet. When the boy continued to whimper, Pietura said he dropped a 30-pound barbell on the boy's head. Prince was silent for a while, but started to whimper again after he was wrapped up in garbage bags. The two convicted killers then "took turns" hitting the boy in the head with the golf club while he was bound and gagged inside the garbage bags.
Pietura then found "a concrete pedestal for a bird bath" and dropped it on Prince's head two times. The boy never made another sound.

During his interview, Mendoza told police that he was responsible for three nonfatal stabbings that took place in the neighborhood. Mendoza claimed that he was "bored," and "wanted to stab someone badly." The three attacks were random, including one victim who was "just sitting there on his phone," according to Mendoza.
Mendoza was set to be tried as an adult. His defense attorney tried during the past two years to have the case dismissed and have Mendoza tried as a juvenile. When that failed, he attempted to have his client claim insanity. Mendoza was ruled competent to stand trial.
 
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