No Charges To Be Filed In Shorewood Standoff

No charges will be filed in connection with a nearly five-hour police standoff in Shorewood last month involving dozens of officers from area police departments, authorities said Thursday. 

However, the man at the center of that incident has been charged in connection with a February attack at a Shorewood bus stop — and information gathered from the investigation into the standoff helped lead to those charges.

Marquis J. Chapman, 28, of Shorewood, has been charged with disorderly conduct and battery — both misdemeanors — in connection with the February incident. He is accused of attacking the same woman who was with him during the June 21 standoff.

Milwaukee County Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern told Patch Thursday evidence gathered following the June 21 arrest led to charges stemming from the February incident.

“Some of the conduct in June contributed to our ability to file charges for his conduct in February,” Lovern said. 

However, the district attorney is not pursing additional charges against Chapman, Lovern said. 

Lovern told Patch media partners WISN12 authorities didn’t have enough evidence to charge Chapman in the June incident.

A criminal complaint details a 911 call placed on Feb. 12 in which Chapman allegedly struck the woman in the face at a bus stop near North Oakland and East Edgewood Avenues. 

“She was attempting to leave the bus stop and he wouldn’t let her and it appeared that he actually physically hit her in the face and then after that she was like trying to leave again,” a witness told a 911 operator.

Police responded and talked to an employee at Harley’s for Men on Oakland Avenue, who said a woman came in earlier and said she had been struck in the face. The victim initially told a police nothing happened, and then later acknowledged that she was hit, but said she didn’t know the man who struck her. 

However, after the June 21 incident, the woman was asked about past disputes between her and Chapman. She told a Shorewood detective that Chapman grabbed her by the head during an argument on the bus stop. Chapman told police he just pushed her.

In June incident, dozens of police officers from 10 departments — including a SWAT team vehicle and Milwaukee County Sheriff Deputies wearing bulletproof vests — and a robot used to defuse explosives responded to the incident at Chapman’s apartment in the 3500 block of North Oakland Avenue. 

The incident prompted by a 911 call, in which police say they heard screaming on the other end of the telephone line, ended peacefully when Chapman and the woman surrendered to police.