15-year-old charged with fatally shooting sister during downtown attack; mother and sister also charged in connection
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A 15-year-old boy is accused of fatally shooting his sister at point-blank range, according to charging documents released Friday, June 20.
The accused teen, who CBS 58 is not yet naming because he is a juvenile, has been charged as an adult with first-degree intentional homicide. It's possible a Milwaukee County judge will move the case to juvenile court.
The shooting happened at 11 p.m. Monday, June 16, on MLK Drive and Vliet, just outside the Park East Lofts. Ashley Hudson, 30, was killed. Hudson's 21-year-old sister, Aaliyah Frison, is facing a charge of aggravated battery (as party to a crime), according to Milwaukee police. Hudson's mother, 48-year-old Tara Hudson, is charged with obstructing an officer.
According to the criminal complaints filed Friday, eyewitness accounts and cellphone videos showed two women -- identified as Frison and another one of Hudson's sisters -- attacking Hudson with a baseball bat. Investigators said the 15-year-old brother then got involved in the altercation, pulled out a handgun and fired a shot at Hudson from point-blank range.
Authorities spoke with the mother of Hudson and the accused teen, who admitted she witnessed the shooting and identified her son as the shooter.
Tara Hudson told CBS 58 earlier this week she didn't know where her son got a gun.
"No [I don't know]," Hudson said Thursday. "And I talked to him finally [Thursday], but he didn't say anything."
However, police said an eyewitness, who is dating one of Hudson's sisters, said the teenage brother got a handgun out of his mother's car. A woman at the scene Friday who said she also witnessed the entire incident said it appeared the brother had the gun the entire time.
The woman declined to be interviewed and did not want to be identified out of fear of possible retaliation.
Investigators said Tara Hudson also denied seeing which of her children were shot because she was too far away. Police said eyewitness videos contradicted her account, and she later confessed to seeing it was Ashley who was shot and that her son was the one who fired the gun.
The 15-year-old was taken into custody and, according to the complaint, denied being present at the shooting but soon identified himself from cellphone videos as the shooter.
According to a criminal complaint, when investigators told him his sister was dead, he replied, "What's that got to do with me?" When asked if he was sorry that he killed her, he reportedly said, “No, I’m just ready to do the time since I did the crime." And when the detective commented that the teen really didn’t care, he said, “Man, [expletive] her!"
Both Frison and the 15-year-old brother are set to make their initial court appearances Saturday.
A fractured family's history
At a vigil family and friends held Tuesday night for Ashley, her father and two of her other sisters painted a picture of a long-simmering feud between Ashley, her mother and some of her other siblings.
"I didn't ever think it could get to this point, but it always been like this," Hudson's sister, Deborah McGhee said. "They always bumped heads, they always fought. It's always been like this."
Court records revealed both Ashley Hudson and Tara Hudson had previously taken out restraining orders on each other. Ashley had specifically warned in a 2023 filing she feared her mother was going to kill her.
"I'm shocked, but not too shocked," Hudson's father, Antoine McGhee, said. "Because, like I said, this family had a long history of fighting and feuding among siblings."