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WEBVTT POLICE MOMENTS LATER NEWS CHOPPER 12 GAVE THE BEST LOOK AT THE SCENE POLICE OFFICERS SURROUNDING AN APARTMENT BUILDING, A CAR SMASHED THROUGH A WALL, THE LOT STREWN WITH SEVERAL GUNS AND A KNIFE SURROUNDED BY BLOO WE’VE ASKED REPEATEDLY WHAT LED UP TO THE CHAOTIC SCENE. POLICE WILL ONLY SAY THEY WERE RESPONDING TO A REPORT OF SHOTS FIRED WHEN THEY SAW A MAN WITH A GUN. OFFICERS SAY HE FIRED AT THEM AND THE SHOT BACK, CRITICALL WOUNDING HIM. >> WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH ALL THE AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THAT ALONG WITH THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS THE INVESTIGATION PROGRESSES. >> LOOKING AT THE PARKING LOT TODAY WHERE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE, IT’S ALMOST LIKE THERE WAS A CAR PARKED HERE IN REVERSE AT HIGH SPEED. THERE WERE BULLET HOLES, TO THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT HAS JUST REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH THE CITY OF CHICAGO AFTER POLICE THEIR SHOT HIM IN THE LEG IN 2014. HE WAS ARMED THEN WITH TWO KNIVES AND A BOX CUTTER AND DIAGNOSED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. >> HE HAS A MENTAL PROBLE >> HIS UNCLE TOLD ME TODAY THE FAMILY VISITED HIM IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE REMAINS CRITICAL, SHOT IN THE HEAD. >> HE GOT SHOT ONCE IN CHICAGO AND THEY PAID HIM

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A man shot by Milwaukee police Wednesday morning was shot by Chicago police in 2014, according to his family. Police will only say they were responding to a report of shots fired at an apartment building near 101st Street and Bender Road when they saw a man with a gun. Officers said he fired at them, and they shot back, critically wounding him. There were several guns, a knife in a pool of blood and a car crashed into a wall at the scene. “There's really no updates to release. Wauwatosa police is the lead on the officer-involved shooting as part of the Milwaukee-area investigative team, so we will continue to work with all the agencies that are involved with that along with the Milwaukee Police Department as the investigation progresses,” Wauwatosa police Capt. Brian Zalewski said. Family identified the man shot as 31-year-old Alonzo Smith, who just last year reached a $180,000 settlement with the city of Chicago after police there shot him in the leg in 2014. He was armed with two knives and a box cutter and diagnosed with schizophrenia.“Alonzo, he have a mental problem,” Smith’s uncle Donnell Dowdy said. Smith's uncle said the family visited Smith in the hospital, where he remains in critical condition, shot in the head. He said police refused to share body camera video of the shooting.“He done got shot once already in Chicago, and they paid him off, so now they just shot him again in Milwaukee, so I wonder how they want to play this one,” Dowdy said. Milwaukee police said, they “don't have any information available to the public regarding this investigation.”