Milwaukee woman charged with first degree intentional homicide after hit-and-run
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Sixty-six-year-old Shirley Hill is being charged with first degree intentional homicide.
Police said the homicide took place around 6:40 a.m. near the corner of 14th and North, when a suspect in a dark-colored sedan intentionally hit the victim before driving away.
That victim later died from their injuries. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office identified him as 41-year-old Mamadou Bamba.
Police obtained several security videos from the incident. Per complaint, one video shows a dark sedan pulling southbound on 14th St. The video shows the vehicle pulling over, then two people, one identified as Bamba, exits the passenger seat. The driver gets out and walks around the back of the vehicle. The driver and Bamba appeared to be in a face-to-face verbal exchange.
The driver got back in the car and the victim continued walking, per complaint. The sedan abruptly accelerated and drove over the curb in the direction of the victim, knocks down a tree and hits the side of the building, according to the complaint. The sedan then drove on the sidewalk and attempts to hit the victim again. The sedan ran over Bamba, who had fallen on the street, and continue forward, dragging the victim's body underneath the sedan. The sedan remained on top of the victim for about seven seconds, per complaint, then backs up, running over the victim again.
After striking Bamba, the complaint says the sedan stops in the street, and two people exit the vehicle, while the victim is on the ground. The driver approaches the victim and appears to rummage through his pockets before getting back in the sedan and driving away.
Police were able so search the FLOCK camera system to identify the vehicle. On Jan. 14, police went to the home registered with the sedan's license plate. It was found in an unoccupied parking lot. Hill was arrested at the residence.
Per complaint, in an interview with Hills, she admitted she was the driver that struck Bamba. Hills told police the victim and another person asked to borrow her car to buy "dope." She said they went to get it and came back two hours later.
Hill said, according to the complaint, that she became upset at Bamba for "how he was smoking crack in her car." She said they got out of the car and into a verbal altercation. Hills got back in the car, and she said Bamba pointed a gun at the car, so she accelerated forward. Authorities say the video obtained contradicts her statement. They say the video never showed Bamba pulling out a gun. Hills later admits she never saw him with a gun but knew that he carried one, per complaint.
Court documents show Hill has a preliminary hearing scheduled on Monday, Jan. 27.