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Suspects in custody in Milwaukee playground shooting

May 29, 2014 By Andrew Beckett

Sylvester Lewis

Sylvester Lewis

Police in Milwaukee say they now have two suspects in custody, in connection with a playground shooting last week that left a 10-year-old girl critically wounded.

18-year-old Sylvester Lewis of Milwaukee was charged Wednesday with causing reckless injury, reckless endangerment, and illegally possessing a gun as a convicted felon. Online court records do not say when Lewis will appear in court.

The other suspect, an unidentified 28-year-old Milwaukee man, has charges pending after he was arrested Wednesday at a state probation office in Milwaukee.

Police said the two men traded gunfire last Wednesday night, when a bullet seriously wounded young Sierra Guyton, who was playing near the monkey bars at the Clarke Street Elementary School on Milwaukee’s north side. A criminal complaint said Lewis was riding a bicycle when he rode by a group of men. One accused him of stealing a woman’s clothes, while another threatened to kill Lewis, and a gun battle reportedly came soon after. Prosecutors say Lewis knew that children were close by, but he fired shots anyway in retaliation after a bullet whizzed by one of his ears.

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