Alphonse Jr. was found guilty of 8 felony counts including murder of a Southside elote (corn cob) street vendor.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
June 23, 2023
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Wednesday, a Milwaukee County jury found Antoine Alphonse Jr., 33, guilty of 8 felony counts including 1st-degree intentional homicide for the August 28, 2020 homicide of Emilio Garza, 52, birth name Filigonio Ramirez Montes, a Southside popular elote (corn on the cob) street vendor.
Alphonse Jr. will be sentenced on September 1, 2023. He is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Alphonse Jr. was convicted for one count of 1st-degree intentional homice, use of a dangerous weapon and party to crime; 3 counts of 1st-degree of endangering safety; one count for possession of a firearm by a felon; 2 counts for armed robbery and party to a crime and one count for vehicle operator flee/elude officer.
Alphonse Jr. was connected to the Ramirez Montes homicide case by forensic evidence of a spent 9mm casting recovered at an earlier armed robbery crime of a pizza delivery man on the same day. Alphonse Jr. is accused of firing multiple shots at the crime scene and police recovered 9mm castings at the scene where the pizza delivery man was robbed, which matched the same 9mm spent castings recovered at the Ramirez Montes homicide scene at the 2100 block of S. 11th Street in the Southside of Milwaukee.
Alphonse Jr. and another suspect took more than $135 from Ramirez Montes after beating him, kicking him and firing 9 shots at the victim who died at the scene. The Ramirez Montes homicide was video recorded by an outdoor home video surveillance camera.
Another accomplice, Diamond P. Harris, 20, was convicted of felony murder on February 3, 2023 in connection with the homicide of Ramirez Montes. Harris was convicted for one count of felony murder and party to a crime and 2 felony U counts for taking vehicle without owners consent including party to a crime.
Harris is facing up to 15 years in prison for felony murder and up to one year in prison for each felony U for taking vehicle without owners consent.
Harris is scheduled for sentencing on July 27, 2023.
The third accomplice, Jeremiah Johnson, 20, was convicted of operating a vehicle without the consent of the owner and sentenced on November 10, 2021 to 12 months in the House of Corrections, but the sentence was stayed and Judge J. D. Watts placed Johnson on probation for 18 months, according to Milwaukee County court records.
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