Left inset: Steven Merkel (Walworth County Sheriff’s Office). Right inset: Steven Merkel’s 8-year-old stepson Michael Meagher (GoFundMe). Background: The residence where Steven Merkel ...

A Lake Geneva man is now charged in the death of an 8-year-old boy in the Town of Geneva. Steven Merkel faces a single count of first-degree reckless homicide. When police arrived, Merkel told them ...

Showing up over Zoom in jail-issued clothes, 52-year-old Steven Merkel appeared before a judge Tuesday afternoon. The Walworth County man is being held on referred charges for first-degree ...

Steven Merkel, 52, of Lake Geneva, was charged Thursday with reckless homicide and use of a dangerous weapon. At around 2:25 a.m. Monday, Town of Geneva, Wisconsin officers were dispatched to the ...

Michael Meagher was shot Monday in the Town of Geneva, southwest of Milwaukee. Two officers discovered the boy shortly before 2:30 a.m. and began life-saving efforts. Emergency responders rushed the ...

Priscilla McCullough, 12, died after accidentally shooting herself while playing with her mother's gun. She was found bleeding on the floor by her 11-year-old sister ...

PROSECUTORS SAY 52 YEAR OLD STEVEN MERKEL SHOT NINE YEAR OLD MICHAEL MAYER EARLY MONDAY MORNING. MERKEL TOLD DETECTIVES HE WAS SHOWING THE BOY HIS GUN AND TOOK THE MAGAZINE OUT OF HIS HANDGUN AND ...

PROSECUTORS SAY 52 YEAR OLD STEVEN MERKEL SHOT NINE YEAR OLD MICHAEL MAYER EARLY MONDAY MORNING. MERKEL TOLD DETECTIVES HE WAS SHOWING THE BOY HIS GUN AND TOOK THE MAGAZINE OUT OF HIS HANDGUN AND ...

According to WSAZ.com, officers at the scene swiftly arrested Steven Merkel Jr, 52, and charged with first-degree reckless homicide before booking him into the Walworth County jail. Sadly ...

A Lake Geneva man is now charged in the death of an 8-year-old boy in the Town of Geneva. Steven Merkel faces a single count of first-degree reckless homicide. When police arrived, Merkel told ...

When police arrived the boy’s stepfather, Steven Merkel Jr., told them: “I did something stupid,” according to the complaint against him that was obtained by local media. Merkel “seemed ...