Sentenced: 4YO Killed In Shooting, 2 Adults Arrested In Milwaukee

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Milwaukee police are investigating a shooting that killed a 4-year-old girl on Monday night.

Roshunda Parker, says her family is devastated. "She would've been turning five next month on the 17th," Parker said. "She was going to have this blue party with a blue dress and blue sparkly slippers. We go from planning her five-year-old birthday party to planning her funeral."

Police said the shooting happened near 39th Street and Sheridan Avenue in the city's Old North Milwaukee neighborhood around 9:48 p.m. The 4-year-old was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, where she later died from her injuries.

"We cannot get over that," Parker said. "A 4-year-old getting shot. I couldn't believe it. It's painful. She was four years old. She had a whole life ahead of her."

Details leading up to the shooting are still unknown.


Police said that a 25-year-old and a 41-year-old were both taken into custody.

Parker said the two adults were babysitting her niece at the time of the shooting.

4-year-old killed in shooting Monday night

Girl rushed to hospital later succumbs to injuries

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Jainadia Little

 

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A Milwaukee County judge sentenced Anthony Brookshire on Wednesday, Feb. 25, to 15 years in prison plus an additional seven years of extended supervision in connection with the shooting death of a 4-year-old girl in February 2025.

Brookshire pleaded guilty in December 2025 to two of four charges against him – including second-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The other two charges were dismissed and read into the court record for the purposes of sentencing.

Milwaukee 4-year-old girl fatally shot; Anthony Brookshire sentenced

Anthony Brookshire was sentenced on Feb. 25 to 15 years in prison for the 2025 shooting death of 4-year-old Jainadia Little.

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Derreanna Little, 26, was sentenced to two years of probation after she plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in March.

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.

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.

Woman sentenced for obstructing Milwaukee police investigation into 4-year-old's death

Last year, 4-year-old Jainadia Little was shot in a home on the city's north side and died at a hospital.

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