‘Murder by the police’ near RNC: Homeless man wielding knife shot dead

A Milwaukee homeless man was shot dead blocks away from the Republican National Convention Tuesday, after he was seen wielding a knife during an altercation with another man in a local park.

Identified by family members as Samuel Sharpe, he had reportedly been living in a tent encampment in King Park less than a mile from the RNC convention. Alexi Worley, a spokesperson in the convention’s joint command center said there was nothing to suggest the shooting was connected to the event.