Suspect Charged in Fatal Shooting of Milwaukee Officer

Milwaukee Police cars are stationed in a neighborhood where Milwaukee Police Officer Matthew Rittner was killed in Milwaukee on Feb. 7, 2019. Rick Wood/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Courtesy of Milwaukee Police Department via AP

MILWAUKEE—Prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a Milwaukee police officer.

Jordan P. Fricke, of Milwaukee, was charged on Sunday, Feb. 10, with first-degree intentional homicide and other crimes in the fatal shooting Wednesday, Feb. 6, of 35-year-old Officer Matthew Rittner, who was serving a search warrant. Authorities arrested Fricke soon after the shooting.