Five-year-old Jamal Anderson Jr. of Milwaukee was found with a gunshot wound to the stomach and pronounced dead at the scene on February 8, 2020. Police were called to the Mayfair Apartment Homes near Lovers Lane Road and Silver Spring Drive shortly after 1 a.m.

Initial statements by Jamal Anderson Sr. said two suspects had forced him into the apartment and that one of them shot the child. Investigators found a backpack outside containing a .40 Glock with an extended magazine and a spent casing; inconsistencies in Anderson Sr.’s accounts followed. He later admitted the gun was his and that he had fabricated the home-invasion story to conceal an accidental shooting.

Anderson Sr. was charged with neglect of a child, consequence is death, and possession with intent to deliver controlled substances including THC and heroin. In September 2020 he pleaded guilty to neglecting a child, consequence is death, and received a 12-year prison sentence with eight years of extended supervision, plus 400 hours of community service and restitution to the boy’s mother.

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