Milwaukee Teen Arrested After Car Accident Involving Police

A 17-year-old Milwaukee boy was arrested after causing a car accident involving Milwaukee police while driving a stolen vehicle. The boy is being accused of stealing a motor vehicle and hitting a Milwaukee police officer paroling the area on a bicycle near the 2800 block of North 38th Street around 10:30 p.m. last Thursday.

Just prior to the crash, the officer and his partner on bicycle patrol decided to approach a vehicle that had been continuously sounding its horn. As officers approached the vehicle, the boy seemed extremely nervous. As officers attempted to speak with the boy, he drove away, striking one of the officers and dragging him several feet with his vehicle. As the car drove away, the other officer fired a shot at the vehicle attempting to disable the vehicle. The driver was not hit by the shots.

Following the car accident, the unoccupied stolen vehicle was found about six blocks away from the scene which occurred near 38th Street and Hadley Street. The Milwaukee officer struck by the vehicle, a 32-year-old man, was treated at a hospital for non-life threatening injuries and was shortly released thereafter, according to Lt. Thomas Welch of the Milwaukee Police Department Criminal Investigation Bureau.

The 17-year old boy was later arrested at a local hospital while there being treated for a knee injury. According to news reports, the boy had a warrant for escaping from a juvenile facility. The boy has admitted to his role in this incident.