Milwaukee police seek missing infant after suspicious fire kills his mother, 2 siblings

Wis. police seek missing infant after fatal fire

MILWAUKEE — Authorities were searching Friday for a 6-week-old boy whose mother and two young siblings were found dead after a fire in their home.

Police were treating the deaths of the 24-year-old woman, her 4-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter as homicides, Police Capt. Kurt Leibold said. Their bodies were found after a fire at their home that was reported early Friday.

Investigators believe the missing boy, Maurice Visor, is in danger and are seeking the public’s help in finding him, Leibold said at a news conference outside the family’s home.

“We need to find this child because we believe the child is probably in danger,” he said. He declined to elaborate about what danger Visor could be in or why investigators were treating the deaths as homicides.

He said officers were searching for two of the family’s cars.

Investigators did not know who might have the baby, and they had no immediate reason to suspect the boy’s father, Leibold said.

Police hadn’t issued an Amber Alert because they didn’t have enough information, Leibold said.

“The criteria isn’t matching because we do not have a person to name or a possible vehicle the boy is in,” he said.

Three people who lived downstairs from the family escaped the fire.

Diana Baldwin, 58, who has lived next door for about a year, said she had never heard any disturbances or loud noises from the woman’s home.

“They were quiet. They mainly kept to themselves,” Baldwin said.

Officers strung yellow police tape to block off a one-block radius around the house. Several neighbors watched the investigators through the windows of their homes but declined to come out and speak with reporters.

Across the street, three red roses lay near a stop sign under the police tape.

One passer-by stopped outside the tape and stood silently for a few moments. When a reporter approached him he said quietly, “If you talk to the family, tell them the whole neighborhood is hurting. Tell them we all offer our condolences.”

Then he turned and walked away, declining to give his name.