A Wisconsin community is mourning following the tragic death of a kindergartener who was discovered lifeless in a dumpster on Thursday, Oct. 26.
The Milwaukee Police Department has launched a homicide investigation into two persons of interest, both males residing in the same household as the 5-year-old victim.
David E. Pietura, 27, and Erik J. Mendoza, 15, confessed to their involvement in young Prince McCree’s untimely demise and are now facing homicide charges in connection with the boy’s fatal beating, police say.
The child had been reported missing the day before he was discovered.
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According to authorities, the child was killed by the two while his mother was asleep, and the two seemingly had no motive for committing this gruesome act, as detailed in a 14-page criminal complaint filed on Monday, Oct. 30.
The only apparent reason mentioned in the complaint is that Mendoza allegedly said he disliked Prince and also told the older suspect that he just wanted to kill somebody.
Pietura said he got involved after he allegedly saw the teen choking the little boy, and instead of stopping it, he joined in.
The criminal complaint reveals that Prince suffered repeated blows to the head with a wedge iron golf club and a barbell, and his head was even stomped on, but remarkably, these acts did not result in his death. Instead, the fatal blow was delivered when the suspects dropped a ceramic birdbath on the child’s head.
The two then disposed of the body as the boy’s family frantically looked all over the place.
Police said in their complaint that Prince, his parents, and two siblings lived in a house owned by a family friend and her three children. One of that woman’s children is Mendoza. Pietura was an acquaintance of Mendoza’s mother and lived in the basement.
State Sen. LaTonya Johnson is a neighbor of the family and recalled how Prince’s parents searched for their missing child on Wednesday,…
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