Tuesday, May 14, 2013
People from around the country take part in a candle-light vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Wauwatosa police officer Jennifer Sebena was among those honored Monday.
More than 19,000 names of fallen law enforcement officers are etched into the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial — and more are added every year. The keepers of the police memorial figure one law officer in the United States dies in the line of duty every 57 hours. For this year's ceremony, 321 names were added to that wall. Among them: Jennifer Sebena, a Wauwatosa police officer shot and killed on Christmas Eve 2012; and Milwaukee County Sheriff's Deputy Sergio Aleman, killed in an on-duty car accident last year. "She was a truly amazing person," Wauwatosa Det. John Milotsky said of Sebena, speaking to WISN 12 News. "She pinned on that badge every day and served her community. Just like the other 19,000 officers that …
Monday, May 13, 2013
A large contingent of police officers from the Milwaukee area and throughout the state are in Washington, D.C. to honor their fallen brothers and sisters, including Wauwatosa's Jennifer Sebena and Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputy Sergio Aleman.
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Monday, May 13
Wisconsin had a strong presence leading up to a candlelight ceremony Monday night at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. Dozens of police officers from departments throughout the state made the trek to the nation's capitol to honor those who died in the line of duty, including Wauwatosa officer Jennifer Sebena and Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputy Sergio Aleman. Their names are among 321 names added this year to the memorial wall. Just before the Monday night vigil, Jason Newton, a reporter for Patch's media partners WISN 12 News, spoke with some of the Wisconsin officers who were on hand. “We knew all along that Jen earned her place on this wall,” Wauwatosa detective John Milotsky told Newton. “It’s all …
Friday, May 10, 2013
A number of law enforcement agencies, including Brookfield, attended the ceremony. Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber was the keynote speaker at Friday's ceremony in Madison, which also recognized four other officers.
Madison — The Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial stands at the north corner of Capitol Square, a low circle of gray granite surrounding a bed of cheerfully bright flowers. A less ostentatious monument you are unlikely to find here, compared to the looming statues of Civil War officers and the incomparable Capitol itself. You’d be forgiven if you failed to recognize it as a memorial at all, or thought it just a convenient and decorative place to sit. Then you might notice the names. More than 260 names inscribed in the pale stone. Every one of them a Wisconsin law officer lost in the line of duty. Today there are five more, representing the two officers who fell while on watch last year, and three more whose deaths nearly 100 years ago had …
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena's name will be not be inscribed on The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund memorial wall in the nation's capital this year.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has delayed any decision to allow Wauwatosa Officer Jennifer Sebena's name to be inscribed on its Memorial Wall in Washington, DC. Reporter Christina Palladino, with our partner WISN 12 News, learned Thursday that the organization's board of directors had not overturned its earlier decision in a rehearing of Sebena's application but would revisit the application next year. No reason has so far been given for the postponement. The exclusion of Sebena from receiving the honor reserved for law officers who are killed in the line of duty fomented an outcry — from other officers in Wisconsin and around the country, from citizens who have put more than 5,000 signatures on a petition, from …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
J.B. Van Hollen, in a letter to the CEO of the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, challenges the group's decision to reject slain Wauwatosa police officer Jennifer Sebena and condemns reasoning for it.
Wisconsin's chief law enforcement officer has sent a strongly worded condemnation of a national officers group's decision to reject an application for Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena's name to be inscribed on a Washington memorial wall. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, in a letter sent Wednesday to Craig W. Floyd, chairman and CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, urged him and the Memorial Fund to reconsider and include Sebena. Jen Sebena was shot to death on Christmas Eve morning outside Wauwatosa Fire Station No. 1 while on duty. Her husband, Benjamin Sebena, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, with a trial scheduled to begin July 8. WISN Channel 12 and Patch reported Tuesday night that the…
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Saying the shooting death of the Wauwatosa Police officer death was a case of domestic violence and therefore not "in the line of duty," regardless of her being on duty, Jennifer Sebena is rejected for national honor.
Slain Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena has been denied a place for her name on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, for officers killed in the line of duty, according to Patch's news partners at WISN. Channel 12 reported at 10 p.m. Tuesday it has confirmed that an application for Sebena's name to be inscribed on a memorial wall with other law officers' was rejected, apparently because she allegedly died at the hand of her husband, Benjamin Sebena, in an act of domestic violence. That has left hundreds of friends and supporters of Jennifer Sebena expressing their displeasure on social media sites and in an online petition – and WISN has learned that public outrage has already prompted a reconsideration. …
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
A criminologist said the case of the shooting of Wauwatosa police officer Jennifer Sebena is not cut-and-dried.
WAUWATOSA, WI—To the legal layperson, the case of the murder of Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena may appear to be open and shut. Jennifer’s husband, Benjamin Sebena, admitted to investigators in statements that he had stalked her for days, had lain in wait for her on Christmas Eve morning, and shot her five times in the head, according to charging documents. The two guns presumed used to kill her—one of them her service weapon, the other a rare type that matches a shell casing found at the scene—were found hidden in the Sebenas’ basement ceiling. His plea of not guilty last week tells us only that there will be a trial. Based on his admission alone, but also with a seeming preponderance of physical evidence against him, what …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Case of the killing of Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena will go to trial.
Benjamin Sebena pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to the Christmas Eve murder of his wife, Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena. At his arraignment before Judge David Borowski, Benjamin Sebena again appeared strapped in a wheelchair and wearing a security vest, as he has in every appearance since his arrest and charging. He did not speak; his attorney, Michael Steinle, entered the plea on his behalf. In the very brief proceeding, Steinle made no mention at this stage of a possible defense of not guilty by reason of insanity or mental defect. The not guilty plea means the case will go to trial, with further proceedings to set a trial date scheduled for March 1. The charge against Benjamin Sebena, first-degree intentional homicide by …
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Discussion on gun control, ownership and use has come to the forefront locally and nationally. Vote in our poll on the matter, and participate in the comments.
Three high-profile shooting deaths in the Milwaukee area since August — coupled with mass shootings in Aurora, CO and Newtown, CT — have heightened the national dialogue on gun ownership and control. It’s also increased the interest in Americans of owning guns. Sellers across the country reported surges in business following the Newtown elementary school shooting, and the head of the National Rifle Association called for armed security in schools. Meanwhile, Democrats plan to introduce federal legislation to ban production of high-capacity magazines, according to the Huffington Post. Have recent events made it more likely you would own a gun for personal safety? Or have they squelched any notion of owning one? Finally, have events and …
Friday, December 28, 2012
Slain Wauwatosa police officer had tremendous impact on the community as a youth group leader and as an up-and-coming law enforcement member.
Jennifer Sebena had a major impact on the lives of high school students at Elmbrook Church. She reached out to them, mentored them through ins-and-outs of high school and comforted them during tough times, like the deaths of classmates. But as the students are mourning the loss of a young woman who they would normally turn to, they are leaning on each other instead. “She always would be able to help us with anything that we had,” said Kristen Overstreet, 18, a senior at Arrowhead High School. “She could relate to anything that we said, which was really, really helpful. We knew that she is not just making it up or isn’t going judge us because she has been through a lot of it.” Sebena, 30, was shot and killed early Christmas Eve while on …
Toni Araiza
4:41 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Being a sister in law to an San Antonio, Texas police officer, his mornings and evenings serving and protecting our community are not promised. We've all have dealt with Officer Jennifer L. Sebena's and Sheriff Sergio Aleman's absence in personal ways. I personally did not know either, but nevertheless, their untimely absence was personal to our community. A Facebook friend of mine from San … more ›