Milwaukee City Wire

Sojourner Family Peace Center CEO and President Carmen Pitre is imploring all the communities of Milwaukee to come together and take a stand against growing violence aimed at women.

"I would say I'm alarmed," Pitre told WISN.com recently. "We have been alarmed and we need more capacity in this community to address this issue."

A still publicly unidentified woman killed in a shooting earlier this month near North 48th and West Clarke streets stands as one of the latest victims of all the rampant violence, marking at least 14 women killed across the city this year.

"We have not done enough here in Milwaukee with these guns," Norma Madison, who resides on the street where the aforementioned shooting took place, told WISN. "That should be number one now. Too many families, mothers, kids are being taken away."

"The deaths of women like Krystal Tucker in the Brownstone Lounge shooting; and Angela Lane, found shot and killed in the basement of a home; dangerously put the city on pace for a 26% increase in women killed this year over 2020," the WISN report said. Over the last three years, "80% of women killed in Milwaukee died by gunfire; more than a quarter of them were victims of domestic violence."

Organizations like Sojourner Family Peace Center, where they take in victims of domestic violence, are doing all they can to stem the tide, but individual communities need to take action as well; Pitre noted in the report.

"There are so many more opportunities to intervene that we haven't yet, in our schools, our churches, our businesses," she said. "We really need a more robust coordinated effort across the board."

Authorities commented that several other homicide cases remain unsolved, and they are urging anyone with information in any of the cases to call Milwaukee police.