Hit-and-run in Milwaukee involving MCTS bus; Man charged in accident

MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man is charged with a hit-and-run on a county bus that injured five people on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Prosecutors charged 30-year-old Demonn Williams with five counts of hit-and-run resulting in injury. Court records show bail was set at $5,000.

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The crash occurred just after midnight near 35th and Brown. According to a criminal complaint, police found a damaged MCTS bus and two damaged cars at the scene: a gray 2014 Ford Escape and a black 2014 Acura RLX.

Prosecutors said a passenger on the bus told police she was heading north on 35th Street when she saw the Acura coming east on Brown Street. The Acura ran a red light and crashed into the Ford, which then hit the bus. The passenger said she saw the Acura driver get out of the car after the accident and flee the scene.

Milwaukee Police Department (MPD)

The complaint says the bus driver, the Ford driver and three other people were taken to a hospital with injuries. These injuries affected the victims' head, neck, shoulders, back, arms and/or legs.

Police were called about 1:35 a.m. about a robbery more than two miles away near 25th and Concordia. Prosecutors said Williams told them someone took his black Acura RLX at gunpoint – and presented the same license plate as the car involved in the crash.

Upon further questioning, court records say Williams admitted to lying about the robbery and said he was the driver in the accident who fled the scene.