Trial for man charged in death of Milwaukee Police Officer Kendall Corder scheduled for Monday

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) – The jury trial for the Milwaukee man charged in the fatal shooting of Milwaukee Police Officer Kendall Corder and the wounding of Officer Christopher McCray is expected to begin Monday, March 30.

Twenty-three-year-old Tremaine Jones faces three felony charges, including homicide and attempted homicide.

According to Milwaukee police, Corder and McCray responded to multiple calls near 25th and Garfield on Thursday, June 26. Milwaukee Police said they later found out the person who called 911 was the mother of Jones's child. She and a group of women had gotten into an argument the day prior about Jones and his infidelity. On Thursday night, the group of girls returned and called Jones.

Police say Jones arrived at the residence belonging to the mother of his child with the gun and called for the man at her residence to come out otherwise he would "air the place out."

“They were initially dispatched to shots fired in the area of 25th and Garfield," said Detective Cedric McFadden with the Milwaukee Police Department said previously in court. “Video shows the defendant Jones, in the middle of the intersection walking back and forth with a rifle.”

When both officers arrived, police say they were ambushed with gunfire from someone in the nearby bushes.

“Officer McCray says he sees a flash then he hears a series of bangs which at first he thought were fireworks and then the series of bangs again and then he acknowledges they are gunshots," McFadden said.

Officer Corder was shot three times and died from his injuries three days later. McFadden testified the bullet had entered Officer Corder’s neck. 

Officer McCray was shot in the right foot, thigh and back. Officers say they recovered 16 rifle casings at the scene and an AR-15 style rifle police say belonged to Jones.

In the months that followed Corder’s death, people in Milwaukee rallied behind those mourning in the Milwaukee Police Department with fundraisers and events honoring the fallen officer.

If convicted, Jones faces life in prison, in addition to 77 years.