Wendy's employee charged with recklessly endangering safety, firing 9 shots at people and breaking car windows

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A Wendy's employee is being accused of firing 9 shots at people who were breaking windows of a car. 

20-year-old Kwilek Brooks is being charged with recklessly endangering safety and endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon.

According to a criminal complaint, the shooting happened on Saturday, Feb. 24 near 27th and Kilbourn. 

While on scene, officers observed a black Jeep with bullet damage. An individual at the scene was interviewed and the person acknowledged going to a Wendy's with her friends to confront a woman who worked there, who they previously had conflict with, the complaint stated. 

Two of the individuals reportedly got out of the vehicle and began to smash the car windows of the person they had conflict with. The complaint stated they left and later came back to smash more windows. 

One member of the group said they saw a man wearing a Wendy's uniform, along with the woman they had conflict with, standing near the Wendy's entrance firing shots towards the vehicle they were in. 

According to the complaint, the Wendy's employee roaster showed that Brooks was assigned to work that night. 

Video was recovered from the Wendy's, with the complaint stating that the video shows the black Jeep arrive in the Wendy's parking lot. It shows one person get out of the Jeep and try to damage a parked car in the lot as well as the individual getting back in the vehicle and the vehicle pulling off. As the Jeep exits the parking lot, the video shows a male employee of Wendy's, later identified as Brooks, exit the store armed with a gun and begin firing as the Jeep drives off. 

Officers say they located nine casings from the scene. 

Court documents show an arrest warrant was issued for Brooks on Wednesday, March 20.

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