SHOTS FIRED. SHOTS FIRED. I'M HIT.
SHOT.
924. I'm hit. I need medical at wood.
He's still shooting. He's at wood at
that original address.
9:24. I was hitting the chest. Upper
right shoulder. Upper right shoulder.
The suspect somewhere in the 1700 block
of wood. I believe the shots were coming
upward. Uh, I got hit by about three
rounds to my squad. One hit me in the
shoulder.
Okay.
Squad's doing going down wood. Be
careful. That's right where the shots
were.
Yo, Will. Dude, I'm hit.
>> I think my vest I think my vest took it,
dude.
>> Let me look.
>> Sit out.
>> Sit out.
>> Have a seat.
>> All right, I'm good, man.
>> Shot at
>> Yeah, dude. There's bullet holes.
There's like I saw at least two or three
bullet holes in the squad.
>> Where were you at? There's glass in my
face.
>> I was right. I was just
>> east on wood.
>> Yeah, I was at New Hall and Wood. I
probably went 30 ft and then I took
rounds directly from in front of me. I
looked around, saw nothing. I was
looking for Kerr. Okay.
>> Cuz I want to know where Kerr parked. I
wanted to meet with Kerr.
>> I'm guessing it's that house on the
corner we've been to.
>> The landlord and the officer were rushed
to the hospital. However, a resident of
the house, 34year-old Victoria Truss, a
security guard and mother of one, was
found lying on the lawn outside the home
dead from multiple gunshot wounds to the
hands, chest, and neck. The discovery of
the murder victim prompted a
neighborhoodwide shelter in [music]
place order as officers from 27
different agencies, and the FBI swarmed
the area. [music] Officers quickly
learned of Victoria's long battle with
domestic violence, prompting a manhunt
for her [music] ex-boyfriend, Michael
Griffin, who Victoria had recently
broken up with. The landlord identified
Michael's vehicle as a black Mercedes,
which was spotted on flock cameras 6
hours later.
Over spring
6 traffic
Lexington.
coming up to Henry Clay. Speeds are 50
West [screaming]
coming up to Lidell. We are going to be
going southbound on light from place.
Speeds are 70. We are coming up to
six right now at Fairmont.
All right. Coming up to your hand speed.
[music]
>> Stay there.
>> Going to be going northbound.
>> It's coming this way.
It's
>> back north. It's right in here. Sorry.
Nope. Coming up tomorrow.
Come on, car. All right, we're going to
be westbound unmar
coming up
river hill.
All right. Several pandemic.
>> We're on a chase with a homicide
suspect.
>> Yeah, I know. I'm with ATF. We're out
here.
>> Okay.
>> It's coming right at us.
Glennials in pursuit of the shooting
vehicle here at telephone board at
Hampton.
Speeds are 80. Got multiple squads
involved.
speeds are 100. We are coming up to
catch you
south
passing out
90 coming up to capital
to Glendale. We're southbound port
coming up to capital. We're going to be
going. I'm going to try for a pit here.
I think southbound port
southbound porting capital.
>> Southbound port passing. Speeds are 60.
>> 34.
>> Southbound for
approaching.
Standby. Approaching. All
right, we're through, Keith. We're going
to be on MLK.
Negative pit. Negative pit. Southbound
MLK. This is Lindell, please in pursuit.
Black Mercedes shooting vehicle from
Shorewood. Southbound MLK.
Passing Ber 47.
All
right. Southbound MLK
passing hour. Speeds are 60. Windell
police in pursuit. Black Mercedes
shooting vehicle from city of Shorewood.
>> This is going to come back.
six coming up to traffic still
southbound MLK.
>> Oh you
negative on the stick. Negative on the
six. Southbound MLK through locail
police in pursuit. Shooting vehicle
black Mercedes one occupant.
Successful exhaust hit us by two.
We're going to be in.
>> All right, that squad's going to be out
of it. Somebody else take over counts.
>> Eastbound center. Eastbound center. He's
going to lose it. His rear tires
extremely damaged.
All right. Southbound First Street.
Southbound First.
>> I got comb on first. Approaching Clark.
>> Speed bumps on first. Be careful.
>> I got on.
>> Everybody okay?
>> Everybody okay?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> All right.
>> You're a loser here. We need MPD. Swarm
the area. All right. Shots, shots fired.
Shots fired.
>> He's shooting out the rear window.
>> Back off a little bit.
>> You two
false alarm. We were picked up by
Milwaukee.
>> Southbound first passing min. Reminder,
shots fired. Shots fired at the police.
>> Southbound first passing min. Shut up.
>> Shut the up.
>> He's up still all over the road. He's
got multiple flat tires. Expensive
damage. Coming up to reservoir
>> westbound on reservoir from First Street
coming up to MLK.
Stand by.
>> Through MLK continuing westbound coming
up to Vel Phillips one for
shooting. Don't pit
real real re real.
744.
Fire.
He's shooting. He's shooting. He's
shooting. Get down. Get down. Get down.
>> [screaming]
>> Reservoir in Finlandson.
>> Watch the crossfire. Watch the
crossfire.
>> You guys have a shield back here.
>> Shield up.
I got you.
>> Is he still there?
>> He might be. It's up there.
>> Is the car right there? You can see it.
>> Get behind that car.
On your left. On your left. Three left.
Behind
you in there.
Behind you. Behind you. Behind you.
Behind you. Behind you.
Those
are not all units.
>> You got to see us.
>> I'm sure of these suspects.
>> Sweetie, let's get the bear rolling up
here.
>> Watch crossfire. We have officers to the
west just north of the vehicle.
Bearcat.
>> Get the bear.
>> MPD has kind of going around to the
east.
>> Do we know if anyone's out of that
squad?
>> I think so.
We got couple guys on the right.
>> We got a couple guys in the a couple
left.
We are on scene.
You good?
>> I I the second clip.
>> Did you Did you shoot? Oh,
>> I did. Give me some cover, though. All
right. I think
>> that's that's safe entry.
>> Okay. We don't have any We don't have
any coverage
>> on fire.
Okay. So when I was when I was up here,
he was still sitting up
>> when that rifle started shooting. I
think he's across the seat this way.
>> He was still up when I was up on the
hill.
>> You want to go back? Let's go back.
>> Come on.
95 medical.
Just stay with me. All right.
>> Just stay with me.
>> I don't see anybody here.
>> Man, you're good.
>> Did you hear they got a bear coming?
>> They got a bear coming?
>> Yeah,
>> but he's still stepping on the gas. He's
going to get out.
>> Yeah. Let's get back.
>> You're all right.
>> You guys have no reason to rush this
door. You're okay. I
>> think so. All right. All right.
>> You going to push to where they are?
Hey,
>> they have a bear cat and rope. Bearcat
and rope.
>> We need everybody coming off the car.
>> Do not approach the car. The haircut is
coming.
>> Get back.
We're calling everybody.
>> Negative. Negative. No one left the
vehicle. No one left the vehicle.
>> We are northbound in position. I want
you to come up on the passenger side.
We're going to form an L on the vehicle.
We're going to lock this vehicle down
and then we're going to take a look.
>> Squish it. All right. S5 MCSO. We're
going to uh we're going to place a bang
on the hood and see if we can get any
stimulant.
>> NCSO, you got anything as far as
movement?
Uh, negative on movement.
>> When officers searched the vehicle, they
found Michael deceased. According to Fox
6 Milwaukee, a Glendale, and a Milwaukee
officer fired along with an FBI agent,
35 spent casings from their firearms
were recovered, and Michael was found
with 11 gunshot wounds. Police later
found nine spent casings fired from
inside Michael's car. The medical
examiner's office discovered
methamphetamine in his system. The
Milwaukee County District Attorney's
Office later ruled the officers to
[music] be justified in their use of
force and were cleared of any
wrongdoing. The Shorewood officer who
was shot was quickly released from the
hospital thanks to his ballistic vest,
as was Victoria's landlord. According to
court documents, Michael Griffin had a
history of domestic abuse and violence.
In 2009, he pleaded guilty to possessing
a dangerous weapon under the age of 18
and battery, leading to a suspended
six-month prison sentence in favor of
one year of probation. According to the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Michael was
also arrested by Milwaukee police in
2013 for domestic [music] abuse.
However, the district attorney's office
declined to prosecute. He was also
arrested in 2020 and 2021 for separate
cases of felony firstderee [music]
recklessly endangering safety, but those
cases were also not prosecuted. 2 months
prior to Victoria Truss's murder, she
had [music] called the police saying
that her boyfriend possessed a gun and
wouldn't leave her house. According to
Victoria's cousin, she finally was able
to kick Michael out of her house the day
before her murder.
>> She was a strong young lady, hard
worker, like she always had a job,
always had good jobs,
and she always made sure her and her son
never had to struggle. Soon I found out
that it was her, my heart just dropped.
I've been in the world 53 years. I've
been here long enough. I just wish I
could trade places with my daughter just
so she could be here with her son. And
I'mma miss [laughter] that about my
baby.
I'm never going to hear her voice again.