{"id":2590,"date":"2023-05-04T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2023-05-04T21:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T21:01:49","slug":"michael-schraven-milwaukee-mechanic-murdered-on-i-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schraven: Milwaukee Mechanic Murdered on I-45"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Schraven was a Milwaukee mechanic who was murdered while driving with his wife on I-45, according to the Milwaukee County medical examiner\u2019s and sheriff\u2019s officers.<\/p>\n

According to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner\u2019s officer, Mike Schraven died in the off ramp of I45 near 76th Street on May 3, 2023. The ME\u2019s report says that Schraven was shot at 8:58 a.m. at the on ramp to I-45 going southbound at Silver Spring Drive. The Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s Office says<\/a> it\u2019s believed that Schraven was fired on from another vehicle. A female was in the vehicle with Schraven but was uninjured, the release says, adding that the motive is not yet clear. The homicide occurred on state Highway I45, near or on the off ramp, the release says.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee County Sheriff\u2019s spokesman James Burnett said in a press conference that authorities got a call a little after 9 a.m. that a \u201cshooting had taken place on state Highway I45.\u201d The vehicle description is a \u201cbit fluid,\u201d he said because it was a \u201ctraumatic\u201d situation. Burnett was asked about reports that a woman was screaming at the scene that it was a road rage situation. He described it as a \u201cvehicle to vehicle incident.\u201d He declined to confirm reports that the woman was Schraven\u2019s wife. <\/p>\n

Burnett said \u201cI\u2019m not aware of a pre-existing relationship\u201d between the shooter and victim. Witness Willie Dais told TMJ4<\/a> that Schraven was shot in the driver\u2019s seat in his shoulder and back and \u201call his windows were shot out and everything.\u201d He told the television station he spoke to the woman in the car: \u201cShe\u2019s pretty shaken up pretty bad. She told us it was road rage and her husband had been shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Keri Mack, a Good Samaritan who gave Schraven CPR, told TMJ4: \u201cFrom the sounds of it, they were innocent and then for that man to lose his life\u2026 unfortunately God called him home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burnett said he couldn\u2019t confirm that it was a road rage incident because it was still under investigation. Windows were shot out of the vehicle. \u201cIt might ultimately be the case,\u201d Burnett said. The suspect or suspects is still being sought, he said. Among the witnesses was a good Samaritan who was a nurse and tried to save Schraven to no avail, he said.<\/p>\n

Schraven\u2019s sister, Amanda, wrote on Facebook, \u201cI\u2019m dying inside knowing you are gone I will always remember you RIP my brother Mike Schraven you will always be in my heart my memories and in my thoughts I love and miss you so very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Mike Schraven\u2019s Facebook posts, he had worked as a mechanic. He went to West Allis Central, was from Milwaukee, and was married.<\/p>\n

Schraven had a criminal history, according to court records, but authorities have given no indication it had anything to do with his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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