'I just killed a cop': Man fires 16 rounds from rifle at police officer after women get into fight and one of them calls for help

A antheral has been recovered blameworthy by a Wisconsin assemblage for gunning down 2 constabulary officers aft helium responded to a combat betwixt 2 women and encountered different man.

Tremaine Jones, 23, was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide successful the decease of Milwaukee Police Officer Kendall Corder, arsenic good arsenic attempted first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree recklessly endangering safety, and possession of a short-barreled shotgun oregon rifle, the Milwaukee Police Department announced connected Friday.

As prosecutors recounted during the trial, a combat broke retired betwixt 2 women connected the nighttime of June 26, 2025, successful the country of North 25th Street and West Garfield Avenue successful Milwaukee. The women were seemingly feuding implicit a cheating boyfriend, and a antheral with a weapon broke up a fight.

"That's what sets everything off," Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Grant Huebner said, according to section Fox affiliate WITI. "Everything happens due to the fact that of that."

One of the women did not similar the antheral with the weapon breaking up the combat truthful she called Jones, according to authorities.

The suspect past showed up with his ain gun, a short-barreled rifle, and "decides to marque 25th and Garfield his small punching bag," Huebner stated. "He's conscionable firing disconnected a round, pissed due to the fact that there's a feline successful the apartment?"

Cellphone video showed Jones walking connected a thoroughfare successful the country waving a firearm and reportedly yelling, "What you want? Let's bash it!"

Multiple 911 calls were made, and the radical contiguous during the combat left, authorities said. But Jones inactive had a gun, and soon aft helium walked into an country disconnected an alleyway, officers, including the 32-year-old Corder, approached him.

Jones reportedly fired 16 shots, "13 of 'em astatine a feline who's moving away," Huebner said. "He takes a pause, and helium fires more."

"The officers were some struck and not capable to instrumentality fire," the Milwaukee Police Department said 3 days aft the shooting. "Officer Corder was transported to Froedtert Hospital for attraction and aboriginal succumbed to his injuries."

Corder's 29-year-old spouse was brought to a hospital, treated, and released. Jones was arrested.

Just earlier closing arguments connected Friday, prosecutors presented a telephone telephone Jones made from jailhouse to his mother.

"'I'm there, I spot 2 guys, and my absorption is my reaction.' That's not saying different people, that's saying, 'Mom, I'm atrocious I conscionable killed a cop,'" Huebner said, according to WITI. "Whether oregon not helium knew they were cops didn't matter. He severs a guy's spine, astir severs another, and says, 'Mom, it wasn't intentional.'"

Jones reportedly cried during the call, saying that helium thought it was "two random radical from the hood" and not constabulary officers and that helium was scared.

"The Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) recognizes what a hard week this has been for our members who testified and were forced to relive the fearfulness of the time we mislaid Officer Corder," the instrumentality enforcement bureau said aft the verdict. "These members were brave and heroic connected that time and we respect their courageousness during this trial. Our thoughts are with them and Officer Corder's household astatine the decision of this case."

Jones is acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected June 12. He faces beingness successful prison.