Cathy OroszFOX 6 Reporter
5:10 PM CST, February 16, 2010
WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee double murder believed to be caused by a jilted ex-lover. A young couple is dead, and another man is behind bars.
The family of 25-year-old Mario Brown is reeling. His sister Maryann said, "I can't form no words of the hurt, and the pain, and I never imagined being that person who lost a loved one."
Brown was shot and killed early Tuesday morning along with his girlfriend, allegedly by her jealous ex-boyfriend. A 28-year-old man is in custody, but that's little solace to Brown's family. Brown's aunt said, "He was a young African-American man with lots of plans, lots of ambition and he had a destiny for his life."
That destiny was to become a doctor. Brown's family says he was studying medicine at the Tuskegee Institute, where he caught the attention of faculty after acing his placement test. "They seen what he scored and they wanted him to take the exam for their medical college, and he placed so high that's how he ended up getting placed in the medical school.", says Brown's cousin Albert Page.
Early Tuesday morning, police found Brown and his girlfriend dead inside her home on N. 35th St. Police arrested their suspect nearby and recovered a weapon. They're not commenting on a motive, but confirm the shooting was domestic in nature.
Brown's family says he wasn't supposed to be in Milwaukee Tuesday night. He missed his plane Tuesday evening, but was still supposed to be heading back to school for the 2010 spring semester at the Tuskegee Institute.
The man who was arrested hasn't been charged yet. The suspect's father told FOX6 his son had gone out with his ex-girlfriend for four years, and the two had a child together. After the breakup the suspect was forced to move back home with his parents.
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