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    Milwaukee teenager pleads guilty to robbery that sparked police chase on I-43

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    A teenager who was among those accused of leading police on a chase on Interstate 43 that ended with Milwaukee officers shooting two other teenagers is now admitting his role in the crime.

    Tyrone Rogers, 17, pleaded guilty Monday to armed robbery, attempted armed robbery as part of a felony, first-degree recklessly endangering safety and operating or driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent.

    The charges stemmed from a June 20 robbery and police chase that ended with two teenagers shot by an officer. One of the teenagers was pregnant.

    Rogers appeared before Circuit Court Judge Jorge Fragoso on Monday for three cases related to the incident. Fragoso accepted Rogers’ pleas and will sentence him on Dec. 12.

    Prosecutors are recommending that Rogers be sentenced to nine years in prison and eight years of extended supervision, according to an Oct. 28 plea agreement.

    Three other people who were charged in the case have upcoming court dates

    Also charged were Calveyon Jeans, the driver, and his pregnant girlfriend, Ashley Patterson, a passenger. Both were shot dead by police in a construction zone after being blocked by a cement truck following the chase.

    Jeans was 17 and Patterson 18 at the time of the incident.

    Patterson was six months pregnant. She suffered life-threatening injuries and ended her pregnancy.

    More: Milwaukee police release footage of I-43 officer shooting, wounding two teenagers

    A preliminary hearing for Patterson is scheduled for Dec. 4. Jeans has a status hearing on December 19.

    Another passenger in the car, Semira Dean, 18, also faces charges of armed robbery as party to a felony and operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent, knowing the passenger, as well as other charges. She is expected to appear in court on Nov. 22 for a status conference.

    Two other teenagers, a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, were also arrested at the scene. They were not charged in adult court; their names were not disclosed in court filings.

    More: Police shoot two teenagers, one whose job is over, on Milwaukee freeway after suspected carjacking

    Here’s what prosecutors say happened

    According to a criminal complaint, on June 20, an out-of-state visitor was driving a compact rental car in a parking lot in the 500 block of North Broadway downtown when she was approached by three teenagers shortly after noon.

    Police believe Rogers was one of them and was accompanied by the two unnamed juveniles. The woman told investigators the teenagers were driving a white Chevrolet Trax and were armed.

    They demanded her keys and grabbed her hand, but she was able to fight them off, get back into the Chevrolet and drive away.

    About half an hour later, another person, who was also visiting Milwaukee, was accosted by the two unnamed juveniles two blocks away from where the first murder took place.

    The man told police he was driving a rental SUV in the 400 block of East Clybourne when a young woman knocked on his window and started asking about restaurants, according to the complaint. The man said he started looking for restaurants on his phone when a young man put a gun inside the vehicle.

    The teenagers asked the man to get out of the vehicle and then the male and female suspects left in the vehicle. According to the complaint, Dean, Jeans, Patterson and Rogers monitored the robbery nearby in the Chevrolet.

    Police said the Chevrolet Trax was stolen by two teenagers on June 8 parked outside the McDonald’s at 420 E. Capitol Drive. Also in September, a Waukesha County sheriff’s deputy had his personal compact car stolen while it was parked in the 1400 block of East Brady Street on the east side, the complaint states.

    Inside the vehicle were the deputy’s service weapon and personal weapon. When police recovered the vehicle in January, the service weapon was missing, the complaint states. Jeans later admitted that he, Dean and another unnamed teenager stole the firearm in September.

    The chase wound its way through busy streets in the middle of the afternoon

    According to the complaint, a uniformed patrol officer spotted the Chevrolet Trax near North 17th Street and West Vliet Avenue around 2:30 p.m. on June 20.

    The officer turned on his squad lights to make a traffic stop. The vehicle stopped momentarily, then sped off northbound on 17th Street, according to the complaint.

    The chase continued for several kilometers at high speed through heavy traffic. At times, the driver drove the wrong way on streets and nearly hit a pedestrian, according to the complaint.

    The fleeing Chevy then went onto I-43, where the driver swerved in and out of traffic and passed vehicles on the shoulder.

    The Chevy ended up in a construction lane near Burleigh Street until it hit a cement truck, then backed into the pursuit squad car, the complaint states.

    The officers, who by now were out of their cars with guns drawn, ordered everyone out of the Chevy. The driver drove her forward, then slammed back into an officer as construction workers fled the scene.

    An officer fired at the car and it stopped. All the teenagers were then removed from the vehicle.

    According to the complaint, a gun found inside the vehicle belonged to the Waukesha Sheriff’s Deputy from the vehicle’s previous theft.

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