An 18-year-old man charged in a deadly triple shooting on Water Street early Sunday morning was given probation instead of jail time on a felony substantial battery charge just four days earlier.
An 18-year-old Milwaukee man charged with first-degree reckless homicide in a triple shooting that killed a 22-year-old in the city’s popular Water Street entertainment district had just been spared jail time four days earlier, the Heartland Post has learned exclusively.
Deonta Rashad Harmon was charged with reckless homicide in the shooting death of Dylan Jackson, 22, and also faces two counts of first-degree reckless injury for shooting an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old in the same incident March 22nd. He is also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Just four days earlier, on March 18th, Harmon was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a felony charge of substantial battery by a prisoner. As part of a guilty plea, though, Lincoln County Judge Jessica Fehrenbach stayed that sentence and instead imposed 24 months’ probation.
In 2023, when he was just 15 years old, Harmon was charged as an adult with fleeing or eluding an officer—a felony—and received a 60-day jail sentence that was also stayed. Judge Kori Ashley sentenced him to two years’ probation.
He violated the terms of that probation and was taken to the Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center, where he was involved in a fight that led to his throwing or expelling substances charge.
Despite these two felony convictions, Harmon was on Water Street Sunday morning instead of incarcerated, and he is now charged in the death of Jackson, who leaves behind a young daughter.
