On the morning of January 22, an inmate died at the Milwaukee County Jail who had been on both the Wisconsin Most Wanted list and the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. After 16 years on the run, he was captured in Mexico and now he is dead.
However, the medical examiner identified the deceased inmate as Octaviano Juarez-Corro, 49, despite the sheriff’s office refusing to do so. A member of staff found the man unconscious in his cell around 6:30 am. There were no outward signs of injury or trauma, and the sheriff’s office reported that he was held alone in a holding cell.
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Officials declared a medical emergency and performed CPR until the Milwaukee Fire Department came to take over. He was pronounced dead at 6:45 a.m., according to the sheriff’s office. Five people were shot dead in South Shore Park in 2006 and Octaviano Juarez-Corro was in jail awaiting trial in July. Only two of the victims made it.
As of the year 2021, he was one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. On February 3, 2022, 16 years after the incident, he was apprehended in Guadalajara, Mexico. Two counts of first degree manslaughter and three counts of attempted first degree manslaughter were filed against him in Milwaukee.
In 2006, Juarez-Corro showed up late for a Memorial Day picnic in South Shore Park. He shot his enraged ex-wife and four others. During the search for Juarez-Corro, former Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales noted: “It’s important to get such a person, because the tendency to violence is high.”
The The official FBI report about the crime read as follows:
“Juarez-Corro entered South Shore Park on the shores of Lake Michigan, where hundreds of people had gathered for a Memorial Day picnic, many of them families with children. Juarez-Corro approached a friend of his estranged wife and struck up a conversation. Juarez-Corro and his wife are said to be in the final stages of their divorce. The couple share a daughter, who was three years old at the time of the shooting. Shortly after entering the park, Juarez-Corro reportedly pulled out a gun and began firing. Two people were killed. Juarez-Corro’s wife suffered two gunshot wounds to the chest but survived. Two others were also injured, one of them seriously.”
“He shot and killed two people and wounded several others, including his estranged wife, who was pregnant with a child,” said FBI Special Agent Michael Hensle. “He caused four or five of the victims to get to their knees, but before they got to their knees he systematically shot them in an execution-style manner.” said Robert Hughes, special agent in charge.
His detention in Mexico and subsequent extradition to Milwaukee resulted from an anonymous tip. That informant got paid. It took about eight months to get Juarez-Corro back to the United States because of the legal procedures involved in the extradition of a Mexican. He has been jailed in lieu of $1.5 million bail since October.
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