Man Arrested in Standoff Investigated For Shooting Gun, Threatening Family

A 48-year-old Brookfield man arrested in City of Pewaukee on Friday after a four-hour standoff was arrested earlier this month after being accused of firing a weapon into the air at the Jericho Drive business.

The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Tuesday morning that the man arrested Friday for an ongoing investigation was the same man charged for shooting a gun on July 4 and pointing the weapon at his son and his son’s friends.

Patch is not identifying the man to protect the identity of his family.

Witnesses told police on July 4 the family returned to the business with concession equipment after being at the fireworks in Mitchell Park in Brookfield. When they arrived, they found the man in a rage and threatening to destroy his wife’s belongings, according to a criminal complaint in the July 4 incident.

 The man was ordered to not contact his wife for 72 hours. But on July 6, he sent his wife a text messaged and started sending his son text messages, asking him to give the messages to his mother. The son refused his father’s request, so the father called him, the complaint states.

The man threatened on the phone to kill the son with a handgun, telling him he had a gun that wasn’t confiscated by the Waukesha County deputies. The man then threatened to kill the rest of the family, according to the complaint.

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