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TROPICAL STORM BARRY, NO DEPRESSION, WILL INFLUENCE OUR WEATHER. THE VIOLENCE GOING ON IN OUR COMMUNITY MU STOP AND IT MUST AND. MATT CALLS FOR ACTION AFTER A THREE-YEAR-OLD WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN WHAT MILWAUKEE POLICE CALL A CASE OF ROAD RAGE. TODAY THE ORIGINAL BLACK PANTHERS CALLED FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND CITY LEADERS TO STOP THE VIOLENCE. INVESTIGATORS SAY YESTERDAY TO CARS -- TWO CARS ALMOST CRASHED SATURDAY AT 42ND AND CONCORDIA. THE SUSPECTED GUNMAN SHOT AND THEN TRIED TO RUN FROM POLICE, BUT WAS EVENTUALLY ARRESTED. 12 NEWS’ CHERNEY AMHARA SHOWS US A CALL FOR CHANGE, FROM A COMMUNITY GROWING TIRED OF THE VIOLENCE. CHERNE A REMINDER OF THE SWEET LITTLE GIRL WHOSE LIFE WAS CUT SHORT IN FRONT OF THE STREET, A SAD REMINDER MANY SAY THEY HOPE IS THE START OF CHANGE. A CALM AND QUIET START ON 42ND AND TOWNSEND. A STARK DIFFERENCE FROM SATURDAY MORNING, WHEN A MOTHER’S PAINFUL CRIES OVERTOOK THIS SPACE. >> I HEARD A WOMAN SCREAMI AND A KID SCREAMING. THAT BABY WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD. CHERNEY: THAT'S WHEN BROOKLYN HARRIS, JUST 3-YEARS-OLD, WAS SHOT AND KILLED. IF OUR COMMUNITY HAS GONE TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN GET ANGRY OVER A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT AND WE START SHOOTING AT KIDS IN CAR AND WE HAVE A THREE-YEAR-OL DAD, EVERYONE OF YOU SHOULD BE JUST AS ANGRY AND UPSET ABOUT THIS AS I AM. CHERNEY: SOMEONE IS NOW IN CUSTODY, BUT A BURNING QUESTION REMAINS. >> WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP AS A COMMUNITY? WE LOSE TOO MANY BABIES. I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS TIERED CHERNEY: -- WHAT IS WRONG WITH US. CHERNE AFTER THE TEARS DRY, AND THE CAMERAS GO AWAY, QUESTIONS CIRCLE IF WI BROOKLYN’S DEATH WILL MARK THE END OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE FRUSTRATING A CITY. WITH MANY READY TO GROW. MA

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Police arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a 3-year-old girl Saturday morning in Milwaukee, officers said.The shooting happened near 42nd and Townsend streets just before 9 a.m.The girl was taken to Children's Hospital, but she did not survive.Family members told WISN 12 News the child's name is Brooklyn Harris."She just turned three on the first," Harris' grandmother said. "They didn't give that baby a chance to live. She just turned three."Police said the girl's mom, along with other children ages 1, 2 and 4 years old, were in the car when it was shot at. They were not hurt."If our community has gotten to the point where we can get angry over a traffic accident, and we start shooting at kids in a car, and we have a 3-year-old dead. Every one of you should be as angry and upset about this as I am," Milwaukee police Assistant Chief Ray Banks said. Officers received tips from the public and found a car near 26th and Walnut streets that they believed was involved. Officers saw a man running from that car and later took him into custody. That person's identity has not been released. Police are still investigating the incident.The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office will review the case this week. Stay with WISN 12 News for more on this developing story.