27-year-old Clarissa Morales Found Deceased With A Gunshot Wound At S. 22 And W. Maple Streets In The Southside Of Milwaukee

Morales was found shot inside a vehicle at S. 22 St. and W. Maple Street in the Southside of Milwaukee.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 9, 2026

WI: On Saturday, June 6, 2026, around 4:56 p.m., Milwaukee police responded to S. 22 Street and W. Maple Street to an apparent shooting where they located Clarissa Morales, 27, inside a vehicle with a gunshot fatal wound. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office was called to the scene. Morales was declared deceased at the scene.

According to a preliminary investigation, residents from nearby the scene discoverd Morales' body inside a vehicle with blood coming out of her mouth, and a handgun in her leg.

Police are reviewing an outdoor video surveillance camera by the scene to determine what happened. So far, Police haven't released any information, if the Morales death involved foul play.

Morales is survived by two young children.

Annual Impromptu Puerto Rico Flag Cruising In the Southside Of Milwaukee Turned Chaotic By Street Takeovers Along W. Historic Mitchell Street, S. 14 And W. Forest Home Ave., According To Police

Multiple individuals were taken into custody and vehicles towed during the annual impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising in the Southside of Milwaukee, which turned chaotic as usual, resulting in multiple illegal street takeovers.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 8, 2026

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Sunday, June 7, 2026, around 5:53 p.m. Milwaukee police began to close congested streets that were taken over by unruly drivers and pedestrians during the annual impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising, which caused a chaotic scene that involved burnouts, traffic stops, police pursuits, public intoxication, individuals including men and women hanging out or seating on open vehicle windows and not wearing seatbelts as they drove down the street and a proliferation of reckless driving by vehicles and mini-bikes.

Also, a fight broke out at the 1200 block of W. Historic Mitchell Street between females while an individual in a sports bike was doing donuts and burnouts.

Multiple vehicles were stopped and towed, and multiple individuals were also taken into custody.

Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) was able to create a collage of Facebook screenshots that media and users posted on social media to see the melee and chaotic street takeovers by individuals displaying the Puerto Rico flag on their vehicles or in their person.

Many of those involved say, that they were just celebrating their culture, but the Puerto Rican culture doesn't have a history of individuals disrespecting their national pride by engaging in lawless and chaotic behavior causing havoc in our predominately Latino community.

In prior years, impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising had resulted in killings and shootings involving members of the Puerto Rican community.

On Sunday, the Fiesta Puerto Rico 2026 took place at Humboldt Park without any incidents reported by police. The difference between the impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising and the Fiesta Puerto Rico 2026 is that Fiesta Puerto Rico had a permit to operate legally with security and a safe environment, which the impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising is unorganized and can very quickly turn chaotic making unsafe for the spectators including  children at the scene.

So far, police haven't reported, if anyone had been shot by W. Historic Mitchell Street, but it's the first time that HNNUSA noticed a Milwaukee police officer carrying an assault rifle at S. 14 Street and W. Forest Home Ave. By the Burger King parking lot.

Did Puerto Ricans posed a threat to Milwaukee police officers, that an officer had to display an assault rifle?

According to police, they were able to finally clear major congested traffic blockages in the Southside and civilian crowds from the W. Historic Mitchell Street area from S. 7 to S. 16 Streets extending from W. Lapham Blvd., W. Forest Home Ave. and to W. Burnham Street by 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night.

Update: According to spectators who want to stay anonymous, police detained one individual driving a black vehicle who was accelerating inside the Burger King parking lot at the 1400 block of W. Forest Home  Ave., and a second man wearing a blue shirt who was recording the arrest. The second man told police officers that they were violating the driver's rights, but police immediately took the man wearing a blue shirt into custody and handcuffed him. The man also suffered an injury to his mouth and lip that caused him to bleed, according to spectators at the scene. Some of the spectators say, that no one at the scene were aggressive against the police and no one was a threat to police, for a Milwaukee police officer to be carrying an assault rifle in the Burger King parking lot. 

Milwaukee police from the 2nd Milwaukee Police District Station hasn't released any information to justify an officer carrying an assault rifle at the Burger King parking lot. But, police have confirmed at least one person was taken into custody during the impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising by W. Historic Mitchell Street business corridor.

Milwaukee police say that one person was taken into custody, they issued 9 citations and 5 vehicles were towed on Sunday in the Southside of Milwaukee during the impromptu Puerto Rico flag cruising chaotic melee by W. Historic Mitchell Street business district corridor.

Emergency Life Ring Stations Installed At City of Milwaukee Bridge Crossings Along The Milwaukee River

Life preservers installed at City of Milwaukee bridge crossings along the Milwaukee River 

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 4, 2026

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) reported in October 2024 that there were no life preservers (floaters) along the 3 1/2 miles of the Milwaukee River Walk along the river. (HNNUSA Article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-city-of-milwaukee-has-no-life.html)

HNNUSA noticed that the City of Milwaukee has installed Emergency Life Ring Stations (life preservers) at downtown bridges.

The Late Vocalist And Percussionist Player Cecilio Jóse Negrón Jr. To Be Featured In Mural At The Art Intersection Outdoor Gallery In Milwaukee's Near West Side Neighborhood

Mural showing Negrón Jr. playing the congas will be among 10 canvass art murals to be displayed next week at the Art Intersection Outdoor Gallery, and 6 additional murals will be added at a later date at the outdoor gallery.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 3, 2026

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Wednesday, Derrick Cainion, the Founder and curator for the Art Intersection Outdoor MKE organization confirmed to Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) that next week, at least 10 art mural canvases (painted in polytab mural cloths) will be installed at the Art Intersection Outdoor Gallery located at N. 35 Street and W. Vliet Street in the Near West Side neighborhood in Milwaukee. One of those canvas murals will include the late vocalist, conga and percussionist player Cecilio Jóse Negrón Jr., 47, who past away in May 2023. According to the Milwaukee Medical Examiner's Office report, Negrón Jr. died of natural causes citing cause of death "Acute Mayocardial Infarct" due to acute coronary artery thrombus and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Negrón Jr. was well known for his love of drums, Latin Jazz and Salsa music. He was the charismatic co-founder percussionist/vocalist for the band De La Buena and on occassion played the Guiro (serrated gourd and played by scraping a stick along its surface) and Bongos (one of a pair of small tuned drums, played by beating with the fingers) along side with his father Cecilio J. Negrón, 73, at local events, who is also a well known local percussionist with the band Caché MKE.

Also in the Negrón Jr. canvas mural, other Latinos and Latinas will be featured by artist Rozalia Hernández-Singh.

A remembrance gathering for Negrón Jr. is scheduled for June 17, 2026 at 3542 W. Vliet Street from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Art Intersection Outdoor Gallery in Milwaukee.

Vacant Dr. Filiberto And Carmen Murguia School Campus Building In The Southside Demolished

The Dr. Filiberto and Carmen Murguia vacant school campus has been demolished at the 1600 S. 36 Street, according to City of Milwaukee records.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

June 1, 2026

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - According to City of Milwaukee property assessment records, the vacant Dr. Filiberto and Carmen Murguia Campus (previously a charter school) property was bought by the United Community Center (UCC) in 2023 for $1,300,000, and in March of 2026, both the UCC and D&H Demolition applied for a permit to raze the school and day care vacant building. It has taken at least 3 months to completely demolished the condemned building.

The UCC has not announced any major development project for the property at the 1600 block of S. 36 Street (formerly the Dr. Filiberto and Carmen Murguia Campus) in the Southside.

The campus building had previous owners, in 2010, the Centro Hispano (Council for the Spanish Speaking Inc. - also known as the Spanish Center) renamed the school building as the Filiberto and Carmen Murguia Campus after its former Director Filiberto Murguia, 78, retired. (HNNUSA article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2010/10/spanish-center-renames-high-school.html)

In 2003, when Dr. Murguia retired from the Centro Hispano, he left a $5,000,000 operating budget. But by 2015 to 2017, when Toni Rivera-Joachin was the executive director, the Centro Hispano lost several major federal funding sources, which led to laying off more than 88 employees, which the Centro Hispano would never recover and it eventually closed operations. (HNNUSA article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-dr-filiberto-carmen-murguia-campus.html)

Another unfortunate situation where a community as a whole allows a non-profit organization to eventually cease to exist and the loss of community services become a thing of the past, which tragically affects the community it served.

The end of the Dr. Filiberto and Carmen Murguia legacy was inevitable due to those that followed failed to maintain federal funding sources to keep the Centro Hispano and its services afloat.

Sign of the times!

Highly Populated Latino Communities In Waukegan And North Chicago Concerned Over Proliferation Of Illegal MAGA, USICE And Green Alien Target Posters

Local Latino communities in Waukegan and North Chicago concerned over proliferation of illegal MAGA, USICE and green alien target posters.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

May 31, 2026

Illinois - Both Waukegan and North Chicago public officials including community members are asking residents to report any door or outdoor camera surveillance videos that might have captured an individual(s) posting on trees and utility poles with tape what they say are threatening MAGA (Make Amerikkka Great Again), USICE and a green alien with a target posters (signs) throughout these highly populated Latino communities.

In a press conference in Waukegan today, Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham confirmed that it's illegal to post signs in utility poles and advised the community to report any illegal posted signs to the City public works in order to remove them. (Press conference video by Julie Contreras at Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DJr74zetH/)

According to Latino community members, the signs in question began to pop up about a week ago, and community members now want for local authorities and federal authorities to investigate what they say are racist, hate and threatening acts target at Latino communities  in Waukegan and North Chicago. (Report by Michelle Gallardo, ABC7 at Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CUfs8nza9/)

Just recently the White House announced that Aliens.gov federal website was created, which allegedly depicts immigrants of color as invading aliens. (Website link: Aliens – The White House https://share.google/23iO0N5FSsLIh55bS)

The National LULAC has also recently condemned the Alien.gov federal website as "dehumanizing", allegedly targeting immigrants with MAGA racist and hate propaganda. LULAC Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CuBqxYNnD/)

Update: On June 3, 2026, an individual(s) began to post similar alien posters (flyers) in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Residents in Kenosha reported the racist MAGA alien posters with targets to local authorities, according to Kenosha police.

18-year-old Joseph Prado Sentenced To 45 Years In Prison For The Easter Day 2025 Homicide Of Donell Jones, 17, In Milwaukee

Prado sentenced to 45 years in prison, with 25 years confinement and 20 years supervision for the Jones homicide.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

May 29, 2026

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, Joseph Prado, 18, was sentenced to 45 years in prison, with 25 years confinement and 20 years supervision for the Easter Day 2025 homicide of Donell Jones, 17, in Milwaukee.

In March, Prado pleaded guilty in the criminal case to felony murder-armed robbery, he was sentenced on Friday to 35 years in prison with 20 years confinement and 15 years supervision, in addition, he was also sentenced to 10 years in prison with 5 years confinement and 5 years supervision for possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent juvenile. Both sentences to be served consecutively (separate).

The criminal complaint says, that Prado and a friend had left a party on Easter morning near W. Townsend Street and N. 23 Street when they saw another individual who his friend had issues with and they confronted him.

Prado decided to rob one of the individuals that they stopped and apparently fired his weapon after hearing gunshots. Jones was critically injured by gunfire and later died at a local hospital, and another 20-year-old victim was injured by gunfire and survived, according to police.