The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office decided not to criminally charge Wilson for fatally shooting Lorenzo at the El Rey Supermarket on July 9. The Luis Lorenzo family attorney says that the D.A.'s office including police did an inadequate investigation in the Lorenzo homicide case.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
July 21, 2022
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Wednesday, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office (D.A.) decided not to criminally charge Enoch Wilson, 43, the Director of the Marshal Public Safety company for fatally shooting Luis Lorenzo, 36, at the El Rey Supermarket on July 9. 2022. According to the D.A.'s office, it confirmed that Lorenzo never committed any crime nor did he intended to do so while inside El Rey. The D.A. also confirmed that Marshal Public Safety Officer Anthony James Nolden, 59, had refused to let Lorenzo go inside the El Rey with a backpack. Lorenzo refused to leave his backpack at the front El Rey Supermarket customer service counter.
Lorenzo never brandished a firearm or indicated he had a weapon. The only thing that Lorenzo did according to the D.A.'s office determination was that he made a gesture at Nolden, but didn't touch him and then fled from the El Rey store into the far Southeast parking lot where Wilson who Nolden had called for backup tackled Lorenzo to the ground after Nolden had pepper sprayed Lorenzo in the face.
While Lorenzo was being physically assaulted on the ground by both Wilson and Nolden. They were both illegally carrying firearms while working as private security at El Rey because Wilson's firearm license expired on June 28, 2022 and Nolden's firearm license had expired on March 10, 2022, according to the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) website.
Attorney William Sulton who represents the Luis Lorenzo family during a press conference said that, the Lorenzo family are upset how the family has been treated as crime victims, there has been no outreach by the D.A.'s office nor has any documents including videos from the El Rey has been released to them to review before the D.A.'s office decided to released their determination not to charge Wilson with Lorenzo's homicide. The information released by the D.A.'s office shows Mr. Lorenzo was murdered and that is outrageous, the D.A.'s office information that publicly released shows, Mr. Lorenzo didn't steal anything from El Rey food market, he didn't threaten anybody, that Mr. Lorenzo didn't get into a fist fight with anybody, in fact the opposite is true, that he was sprayed in the face and was blinded, that he exited the building and yet he was being pursued out of the building by larger man who takes him to the ground and there's a second much larger man attacking him...they were going to stop Mr. Lorenzo and that's what was going to happen and he tried to save himself and that had tragic consequences for Mr. Nolden and that's a tragedy, but that doesn't justify the shooting death of Mr. Lorenzo in any shape or form...the D.A.'s office and police didn't do the background investigation that would show both Wilson and Nolden were illegally carrying firearms because their firearm endorsement in their permits had elapsed while working at El Rey. Also, according to the DSPS regulations, El Rey had no sustancial need to have armed private security guards at the store, since there is no history of customer violent interactions that would require armed security and there is no private security company that would tell their employees to exit the building they are supposedly to protect or tell them to go out and tackle somebody to the ground, these are not police officers and the D.A.'s office confirmed, that Mr. Lorenzo did not commit a crime in that store...Mr. Wilson and Mr. Nolden were the aggressors, not Mr. Lorenzo, so it's not self-defense and you can't predict the circumstances for your own defense, which is exactly what they did. According to what the D.A.'s office says, Lorenzo was acting in self-defense, Sulton indicated during the press conference.
"What's troubling about this case, is that some how, if you have been convicted of a crime in this state, some how you are outside of the protections of the law and that is just wrong," Sulton said.
The lack of the D.A.'s office to release any information to the Lorenzo family is indicative of an inadequate investigation, according to Sulton.
Sulton says, he intends get all the information and videos available in the Lorenzo case whether the D.A.'s office decides to release it or by filing a subpoena.
Press Conference video (July 20, 2022): MKE Attorney Sulton says, Luis Lorenzo, 36, was murdered by MPS private security at El Rey Foods https://youtu.be/IVVMPNIizAo
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