Green Bay – Three days earlier than the filming of April 2024 on the east aspect of Green Bay blocked Preble High and Danz Elementary Schools, the decide of the District Court of the County of Brown John Zakowski presided over a listening to in a baby in opposition to the Green Bay teenager who would have prompted the filming.
At the condemnation of {the teenager} Tuesday, Zakowski stated he feels unhealthy that no matter he stated in that listening to “he will need to have gone to 1 ear and out of the opposite”. Zakowski stated the judges usually blame when somebody with whom they’ve been a very long time, as he did with the sixteen yr previous Freddrick Love-Kennedy, finally ends up on the pitch once more.
“I really feel unhealthy at the moment, Freddrick,” stated Zakowski earlier than delivering the sentence. “You are usually not a foul little one, not a foul individual, Freddrick, and I nonetheless consider it.”
Love-Kennedy was sentenced to 10 years of preliminary confinement adopted by 10 years of in depth supervision after him did not present any competition on January 17th A top-degree reckless damage with a harmful weapon for filming and hurting a 16-year-old boy Love-Kennedy had present disputes.
It was fortunate that Zakowski was not chairing a homicide case, stated lawyer Kimberly Hardtke, because the sufferer had two wounds on firearm on his arm and the fragments of bullet within the face, suggesting that he might have been hit within the head if his arm didn’t take the pictures bump.
Love-Kennedy was initially accused of tried intentional homicide of the primary occasion in filming, which occurred close to the intersection of Mills and the streets of the village instantly after 12:30 on April 19, 2024. The sufferer and mates have been there to battle a love eyelash and his cousin, based on a prison criticism, however the love method approached the sufferer’s automobile and pulled out a gun.
Everyone within the automobile went out and ran when the automobile didn’t begin, stated the criticism, however the sufferer went again as a result of he forgot his keys within the ignition. Love-Kennedy shot the sufferer twice within the arm and continued to shoot, pursuing the sufferer as he tried to run away, stated the criticism.
“There are only a few issues worse or (extra) cowards than capturing somebody within the again after they run away,” stated Zakowski.
Freddrick Love-Kennedy is escorted on the protection desk earlier than a condemnation listening to on Tuesday 8 April 2025, on the Court of the County of Brown in Green Bay, WIS. Love-Kennedy was sentenced to 10 years of preliminary confinement and 10 years of prolonged supervision after pleading surveillance. Tork Mason/USA Today Network-Wisconsin
“People have simply given up on him”
A forensic psychologist spent over six hours by administering a number of psychological exams for Love-Kennedy, stated the protection lawyer James Schoenecker, and his report found that Love-Kennedy skilled 9 of all the pieces on 10 adverse childhood experiencestogether with abuse, abandonment, violence, psychological sickness.
In the abstract of the connection, Schoenecker stated that the psychologist noticed a brief interval of medicine within the first grade that has not been continued regardless of the medication appear to assist Kennedy Amore, no historical past of psychological evaluations or household therapy companies regardless of the primary suggestions for each “pervasive normal negligence” in offering Love-Kennedy’s sources.
“He had no stability in his life,” stated Schoenecker. “He suffers from psychological sickness issues which were addressed after which folks simply gave up on him.”
The Court should think about the age, the event part and the rehabilitation potential of Love-Kennedy, stated Schoenecker, and “his habits shouldn’t be indicative of everlasting fashions”. Keannedy-Kennedy’s Kennedy related to his neighborhood and his household is significant to scale back his probabilities of recurrence, Schoenecker stated.
The protection requested Zakowski to condemn Love-Kennedy to seven years of jail adopted by seven years of extended supervision. While Love-Kennedy was sentenced to grownup courtroom, he’s solely 16 years previous, Schoenecker stated to Zakowski: “Please remember it”.
The decide of the County Circuit of Brown John Zakowski is aimed on the events throughout a conviction viewers on Tuesday 8 April 2025 on the Court of the County of Brown in Green Bay.
‘We nonetheless consider in you’
Everything Schonecker stated about how Love-Kennedy failed in his childhood, Zakowski stated he agreed. It is one thing that he usually sees in his classroom, he always thinks and even considered on Tuesday morning about Mass.
The circumstances to the individuals who like Kennedy Love annoy him, Zakowski stated: “He ought to disturb everybody” and takes it into consideration when he delivers sentences. However, the case of Love-Kennedy is “extra severe because it turns into”, stated Zakowski, and “punishment should adapt to crime”.
That punishment, decided by Zakowski, needs to be 10 years of preliminary confinement in jail and 10 years of extended supervision after the discharge. Love-Kennedy apologized to the sufferer by means of a letter learn by his lawyer, one thing that Zakowski stated he was glad to listen to after studying that Love-Kennedy continued to disclaim his actions to the pre-Fractive investigator.
“Frankly, Freddrick, if I hadn’t apologized, I might have added one other yr simply to hit the purpose that it’s a must to take accountability at residence,” stated Zakowski.
We hope that, in a extra constructive and confined atmosphere, Love-Kennedy will have the ability to mature and make higher selections, stated Zakowski.
“Freddrick, sooner or later I hope to see you on this neighborhood, with a job, really feel liked and be glad,” stated Zakowski. “We nonetheless consider me in you.”
Vivian Barrett is the general public safety journalist of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. You can attain it to vmbarrett@greenbay.gannett.com or (920) 431-8314. Follow it on X, beforehand Twitter, on @vivianbarrett_.
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