Sentenced: Gunman Slaughters 5 Relatives As Young As 14, Spares 3YO Child

[Sugar Cookie]

A Milwaukee man slaughted five members of his own family including a 14-year-old - but spared a toddler at the home - and called the cops to turn himself in.

Distraight friends, family and neighbors gathered outside the house in the 2800 block of North 12th Street, Milwaukee, where the mass shooting occured Monday.

Some sobbbed while one woman collapsed into a loved one's arms, while police say 'fights' broke out in the volatile crowd.

Cops received a 911 call from a man at 10.30am, who told them his family was dead, Chief Alfonso Morales said during a brief news conference.

The gunman was later identified as Christopher P. Stokes, 43.

When officers arrived, they found the victims dead inside in what appeared to be a domestic shooting. The identities of the victims have not been revealed, but authorities said they range in age from 14-years-old to 41-years-old.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Mayor Tom Barrett said an infant was also found inside the home and taken to a local hospital for a medical evaluations.

Morales said investigators recovered a weapon and believe Stokes acted alone, adding that that there's no threat to the public.

He has been taken into custody. A motive has not been revealed.


Stokes has accumulated a lengthy criminal record in Milwaukee County that goes as far back as 1997.

He also has domestic violence convictions involving at least two separate women starting in 2002.

Online court records show he was convicted in 2002 of misdemeanor battery. He was sentenced to probation, ordered to attend domestic abuse counseling and prohibited from possessing firearms.

He pleaded guilty in 2007 to felony battery, felony bail jumping and felony intimidation of a witness.

He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, prohibited from possessing firearms and ordered to complete a batterers' intervention course.

Five years later, in 2012, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery with a domestic abuse modifier, and drew 18 months in prison with another gun ban.

In 2017, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a month in jail with work-release privileges.

Due to a domestic violence conviction, Stokes has been banned from owning guns, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

The state Department of Workforce Development filed a warrant against him in 2016 seeking $13,304 in unemployment compensation that still hasn't been paid.

The online records don't offer any further details. DWD spokesman Ben Jedd said such cases are confidential under state law.

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[Brillig]

With all those prior domestic violence convictions, this outcome can't really be that big of a surprise.

 

[BuffettGirl]

Sa wait, the felon wasn't supposed to have guns? Weird, how'd he get his hands on one, repeatedly? Better ban guns...


ETA: Fixed a typo 3+ years later.

 

[Sambo]

Interesting that the dv law banning gun ownership for life didn't prevent this and the Duluth rehab classes didn't rehabilitate him. Oh well, let's ignore peer-reviewed scientific studies, renew the vawa and keep scratching our heads for another 5 years.

 

[JackBurton]

Curious if these were HIS kids, if someone invited him into their home despite him being a violent criminal. May not have any sympathy for atl east one of these victims. Given his criminal history, there really is nothing at all shocking abotu this crime. Odd to read media reports stating otherwise. Everyone who knew this guy should known who he was and what he was capable of.

Interesting that the dv law banning gun ownership for life didn't prevent this and the Duluth rehab classes didn't rehabilitate him. Oh well, let's ignore peer-reviewed scientific studies, renew the vawa and keep scratching our heads for another 5 years.

Poor enforcement, workarounds, and the presence of illegal guns to easy purchase on the street or thru private sales with assholes who dont know who they're selling to, doesnt negate the importance/value of banning guns for scumbag criminals. Dont be a fucking idiot.

 

[Sejanus]

He should be put down.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

The victims have been identified as:

• Demetrius Thomas, 14
• Tera Agee, 16
• Lakeitha Stokes, 17
• Marcus Stokes, 19
• Teresa's Thomas, 41

A relative of the eldest victim in this tragedy identified as Teresa Thomas said Thomas and the suspect had an on-again-off-again relationship. Family members say the victims are from Thomas' side of the family as well as his side.

Looks like the kids were his.. the only one spared was a grandbaby..

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[JackBurton]

ZERO sympathy for Teresa Thomas.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

-- The case against a Milwaukee man charged with killing five people has been suspended.

After reviewing a doctor's report, the court found Christopher Stokes doesn't have the "capacity to understand court proceedings or assist in his own defense."

In late April, Stokes called 911 and told the operator he had killed his family.

Police went to 12th and Hadley and found five people dead -- four of them teenagers.

Stokes was committed for treatment.

Court suspends case of Milwaukee man charged in death of 5 family members

See Also 'I just killed

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An evaluation was scheduled for July 2020 - no update

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Nobody in the courtroom during Christopher P. Stokes' sentencing hearing Tuesday had any answers as to why he decided to shoot and kill five of his family members, including four teenagers, last year.

Even though Stokes had a history of domestic violence, everyone agreed his actions the morning of April 27, 2020, in the family’s home on Milwaukee’s north side were unimaginable.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Schindhelm asked for the maximum sentence of 205 years in prison, believing that was not only a just sentence, but the only way to protect the public from Stokes and his unpredictability.

Milwaukee County Judge Michelle Havas agreed, sentencing Stokes to 40 years in prison for each of the five counts of first-degree reckless homicide he pleaded guilty to, plus another five for illegally possessing a gun as a convicted felon.

“I deserve everything I get,” Stokes said before receiving his sentence. “I’m not asking for any leniency. I don’t know what made me do it and I’m sorry. The reality is I can’t take it back. I must have had a lot of hate in me. I deserve to be locked up.”

Killed in the shooting were Teresa Thomas, 41; her two children, Tiera Agee, 16, and Demetrius Thomas, 14; and two other teens related to Christopher Stokes who had been staying with the family – Marcus Stokes, 19, and Lakeitha Stokes, 17.

'I must have had a lot of hate in me': A Milwaukee man receives a 205-year sentence after killing five family members

Christopher P. Stokes received a maximum 205-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to killing five family members in April 2020.

www.jsonline.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Name:​

STOKES, CHRISTOPHER P​

Maximum Discharge Date: 04/26/2331

 

[BuffettGirl]

That maximum discharge date is a thing of beauty isn't it? ❤