{"id":900,"date":"2023-03-01T04:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=900"},"modified":"2023-03-01T06:07:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:07:18","slug":"elijah-d-combs-man-accused-of-murdering-milwaukee-common-council-presidents-niece-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Elijah D. Combs, Man Accused of Murdering Milwaukee Common Council President\u2019s Niece is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/elijah-d-combs-dead\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/elijah-d-combs-dead\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Collage-Maker-27-Feb-2023-09.26-PM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elijah Combs\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"elijah d combs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elijah D. Combs, the man accused of murdering Aliyah Perez, the niece of Milwaukee Common Council president Jose Perez, is dead, Wisconsin Right Now has learned.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the man we previously wrote about because state Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee judge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/elijah-d-combs\/\">gave him a weak sentence<\/a> in a brutal domestic violence case.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Police said in a statement that on Tuesday, February 28th, 2023, at 8:46 pm, in the 1300 block of W. Windlake Ave., they pursued a vehicle wanted in connection with a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the pursuit the driver of the fleeing vehicle fired a handgun towards Officers. The pursuit ended on the 4800 block of <span dir=\"ltr\">S. 13th St<\/span>, after the driver of the fleeing vehicle, a 28-yoa Milwaukee male, discharged his firearm and sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medical personnel were called and the was pronounced deceased at the scene. No officers discharge their firearms. No one was injured from the suspect\u2019s gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources told WRN that man is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/elijah-combs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elijah D. Combs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Perez, the victim\u2019s uncle, is the president of the Milwaukee Common Council. According to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner\u2019s office, Aliyah Perez, 26, was murdered on the evening of Feb. 26, 2023, in the 5300 block of South 26th Street. The Milwaukee police homicide unit is handling the case.<\/p>\n<p>Common Council President Jos\u00e9 G. P\u00e9rez said previously in a statement: \u201cMy family has experienced an immense tragedy within the past 24 hours that has left us saddened beyond words. I ask the news media and the public to please allow me and my family members space and privacy at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/elijah-d-combs-dead\/ Elijah D. Combs, the man accused of murdering Aliyah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}