Pedestrian hit, killed by driver fleeing police near Sherman and Fond du Lac
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — An innocent bystander is dead after a high-speed crash on the city's north side.
CBS 58 obtained security video from a nearby business that shows the moment a car involved in a police chase plows into a bus shelter.
The crash happened near Sherman Boulevard and Fond du Lac Avenue Monday.
Glass was still covering the sidewalk Tuesday morning, and tire marks were visible where the shelter had been installed.
"We turned and came down there, we see his shoe was over there, we said man, somebody's been hit," said David Johnson, who was near the area at the time of the crash.
Johnson saw a black car being chased by police, then heard a massive crash.
"It sounded like a big old BOOM," Johnson explained.
Milwaukee police said it happened around 8:30 p.m. Monday near 37th Street and Fond du Lac Avenue, when officers attempted to pull over a reckless driver.
Officials said the car fled and it became a pursuit, before the driver lost control near the intersection.
A 55-year-old man waiting at the bus stop was killed. He was identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office Tuesday night as Lorenzo Martin.
The 35-year-old driver was arrested with minor injuries.
The witness believes the car was going at least 60 miles per hour when it crashed.
"Saddened. My heart was saddened," said Maurice Wince, the owner of nearby Sherman Park Grocery.
Wince is also the manager of the local business improvement district (BID).
He said the area has seen several fatal crashes in the past.
"My biggest concern is it continually happening after all of our collaborative efforts," Wince explained. "It continues to happen after all of our collaborative efforts in preventing high-speed chases and crime."
He wants the community, police, and city leaders to keep working to make the roads safer, and he says BID #54 is committed to that goal.
"It raises the hair on the back of our necks as it relates to business owners, as well as residents, in saying enough is enough," Wince said.
The crash happened on a stretch of Fond du Lac Avenue that Milwaukee County has deemed a "corridor of concern" when it comes to dangerous crashes.