Crime & Safety

Tosa Teen Used Shotgun in Multiple Robberies, Police Say

Jazmin Fair had been implicated by an alleged accomplice two days before shooting his stepfather, records show.

Life unraveled rapidly for a Wauwatosa teenager accused of in the back during an argument over prom clothes, the criminal complaint charging him with three counts of armed robbery shows.

Milwaukee police were already seeking Jazmin Fair, 18, as a suspect in the robberies when he chased Suraju Lawal, his stepfather, out of their home on Capitol Drive and wounded him with a shotgun blast on May 14, court and police records show.

Two days earlier, a 17-year-old boy from Milwaukee had been arrested in the robberies and implicated Fair as an accomplice. After Fair's mother talked him in to turning himself in for shooting her husband, Wauwatosa police turned him over to their Milwaukee counterparts after they had completed their investigation.

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Fair and two accomplices are charged in connection with three armed holdups, including two in which Fair is accused of wielding a sawed-off pistol-grip shotgun identical to the one he pulled from under his bed when he allegedly shot Lawal.

Also charged as adults are Fair's girlfriend, Amanda Seefeldt, and Marquele Townsel, both 17 and from Milwaukee. Several other accomplices are mentioned but not named in the complaint, which did not say whether they were also in custody.

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Seefeldt also was charged with harboring a felon after the shooting because she was waiting in her car and drove him away from the crime scene.

According to the armed robbery complaint:

On May 8, Fair, Seefeldt and Townsel, along with two juvenile males,Β  committed two robberies on the streets of Milwaukee. In the first, a man and woman were walking from a gas station near Hampton and Appleton avenues when four males ran up to them. One pointed a sawed-off shotgun at them and said "Give it up!" They searched the couple and took a purse and cell phone from her and some cash and cigarettes from him.

After his arrest, Townsel told police that he was acting as a lookout but heard Fair say "Give it up!" The group then ran back to Seefeldt's waiting car, a white Ford station wagon.

The same day, another woman reported that she was walking to her home in the 4400 block of North 104th Street when three to four males ran up to her. One was holding a shotgun and said, "Give me the money, (expletive)!" She said she threw up her hands and fell to the ground in a fetal position. One of them took her purse and they ran off.

Four days later, Townsel was arrested after Milwaukee police found both women's purse's and wallets behind his home, and he told officers that Fair was carrying the shotgun and that Seefeldt again had been the getaway driver in that incident.

After Fair's arrest, he admitted his part in another armed robbery that police determined happened on Dec. 17 in which three males, one armed with a handgun, held up a woman and her daughter at a bus stop in the 8400 block of West Brown Deer Road.

The robber with the gun pointed it at the woman and said, "Give it up!" The woman gave him her wallet while the other two robbers rummaged through her bag of groceries, taking several pizzas. She said the one with the gun then pointed it at her daughter, cocked it and said "What you got?" Then he said "Don't look or I'll shoot," and the three ran off.

Fair implicated Seefeldt as a getaway driver in that incident, too, and named two more accomplices. The complaint did not say whether they had been taken into custody.

Wauwatosa police told Patch after Fair was arrested and charged with shooting his stepfather that he was a suspect in "multiple armed robberies in Milwaukee and Wauwatosa" and possibly elsewhere, and that as many as eight to 10 suspects might be involved in the string of crimes.

Armed robbery is punishable by up to 40 years in prison. Fair also faces up to 60 years and no less than 25 in connection with the shooting.


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