Santiago, a former Puerto Rican community leader, who also ran for the Milwaukee Common Council twice and who in 2001 confessed that he actually killed Aurora Weier in 1985 will be eligible for parole in 2024.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
June 24, 2022
Updated
Milwaukee, WI - Angel Luis Santiago, 72, who was convicted in 1987 for 1st-degree murder for the November 4, 1985 homicide of Aurora Weier, 45, will be eligible for parole on May 1, 2024 (inmate #00176643). Santiago was eligible for parole in May 2023, but was denied parole and his eligibility parole date was extended until 2024, by the DOC Wisconsin Parole Commission.
Santiago is currently incarcerated at the Oakhill Correctional Institute in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WIDOC).
Santiago who was sentenced to life in prison with five years extended incarceration, in 2001 finally confessed to a reporter while being incarcerated at the Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota that he fatally shot Weier with a rifle from across the street as she was walking with her 7-year-old son into a Latino community center known as the Enrichment Center that was later renamed the Aurora Weier Educational Center, an alternative high school for Latino youths at N. Richards and W. Center Streets in Milwaukee.
Santiago who was then the Director of the United Youth Federation apparently became distraught that Weier was an emerging Latina leader and was successful in getting funding for the center. Santiago had experienced deficit funding issues in his organization.
Weier was originally from Panama who saw a need for Latinos to get educated in the Holton Latino and Puerto Rican neighborhood.
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