Charged, but at large: Surveillance video helped police ID suspects in shots fired at Brett’s Farmhouse

On Media Outlook News: MILWAUKEE — Two Milwaukee men have been charged in connection with a shots fired incident that happened at Brett’s Farmhouse Tavern on October 1st — an incident caught on camera. 

The surveillance video helped police identify the suspects in this case. 

Despite the charges, the suspects in this case remain at large.

The charges are as follows:

30-year-old Demond Griggs of Milwaukee:

• Second degree recklessly endangering safety, use of a dangerous weapon
• Endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon (discharge within 100 yards of a building)

28-year-old Korey Griggs of Milwaukee

• Carrying a concealed weapon
• Endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon (discharge within 100 yards of a building)

Disorderly conduct, use of a dangerous weapon

An investigation revealed casings at the scene which were consistent with having been fired from a handgun and a rifle — 14 casings in all.

Police were able to access surveillance video which recorded this shots fired incident. The video showed two women conversing with individuals later identified as Demond Griggs and Korey Griggs, near a vehicle Korey Griggs drove to the tavern.

Shortly after 1:00 a.m., the complaint indicates the video showed Korey Griggs walking up a ramp toward the tavern’s patio. Demond Griggs followed after grabbing something from the trunk of a vehicle parked in the parking lot — placing the item into his pocket.

The complaint indicates moments later, Demond Griggs was seen in the video walking down the ramp, followed by his wife, whom he was then seen “striking repeatedly,” and pulling her hair. The video showed Griggs’ wife “appeared to be guarding the trunk” of the vehicle from which Demond Griggs had retrieved the item he’d placed into his pocket. Demond Griggs was seen in the video grabbing his wife’s hair and forcibly escorting her to the passenger side of the vehicle — pushing her head into the front passenger window. They both entered the vehicle and Griggs began to back it up — stopping near the parking lot’s exit. The complaint says Griggs and his wife then exited the vehicle, and walked toward the trunk. Griggs then forced his wife back into the vehicle — “striking her repeatedly.”

Meanwhile, the video showed a verbal altercation between Griggs and another man, which appeared to stem from Griggs’ beating of his wife. Korey Griggs joined the argument, according to the video. During the altercation, the complaint indicates Korey Griggs raised a handgun and discharged it four times. He then entered his vehicle and fled the scene.

According to the complaint, the video showed Demond Griggs retrieving an assault rifle from the trunk of his vehicle, and firing 12 shots in various directions. As the 12th shot was fired, the complaint indicates two women were seen walking between Demond Griggs and the tavern. They were 10 feet from Griggs as he fired that last shot, prosecutors say. Griggs then placed the weapon back into the trunk and fled the scene.