A Wisconsin wedding ended in gunfire as an argument over meatballs spilled over into bloody mayhem.
On June 20, cops were summoned to a shopping center in Milwaukee where a wedding was taking place at the Aria Business Center. As per The Sun, they discovered a woman (said to be the bride’s cousin) shot in the arm and leg, and a man with a gunshot wound to the back of his neck. Both victims were rushed to the hospital as the officers tried to figure out how a wedding celebration had gone so badly wrong.
The bride’s cousin explained to cops from her hospital bed that she’d walked into the kitchen to discover a groomsman messily eating meatballs using his bare hands. Disgusted, she told him to at least use a plate. In response, he reportedly punched her in the face.
The woman’s brother-in-law stepped up to defend her, and then came the sound of gunfire. The woman told cops she didn’t believe the gunman was the meatball-eating groomsman, but one of his friends.
The bride herself then intervened, explaining to cops she’d watched the entire confrontation through a service window. She said a man known to her as “Boog” had emerged from the kitchen, wielding a gun. The bride followed him outside, angrily confronted him, snatched the key fob for his car from him to prevent him from driving away, and then chased him from the premises on foot.
Who is “Boog”?
The man known as “Boog” was later identified as Thomas Redrick Williams, 41, by all three witnesses, who picked him out of a photo line-up. A black Chevrolet Escalade registered to Williams’ wife was also identified, and she told cops she kept a Taurus 9mm in the glovebox. Cops searched the vehicle and discovered the gun, Williams’ iPhone, and an envelope addressed to “Thomas Williams.”
Williams has now been charged with two counts of first-degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and bail jumping. Williams was said to be out on bond the day of the wedding in relation to a separate criminal case. He is now on the run, and could not be reached for comment.
Locals described the situation as “ridiculous”. ABC News interviewed a neighbor named Robert, who said, “For a wedding to be shot up like that one was on up there on Fond Du Lac is ridiculous. A wedding day is supposed to be something that two people have to care and love each other, and for someone to disrupt that is disrupting a family.”
