Two Downers Grove men charged in Miller Park beating case

Milwaukee law enforcement officials officially filed charges Friday morning against two Downers Grove men for beating up a Milwaukee Brewers fan at Miller Park.

Adam Miechle, 25, and Jerry Emert, 26, were officially charged with a form of battery by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office for their role in the fight, said District Attorney Lovell Johnson.

He said the complaint has been approved, but would not state what the form of battery charge the two men received until the official complaint is done being typed up.

He said once the charges are officially processed, the two men will be released from Milwaukee County Jail, where they have been since the fight took place in the Miller Park parking lot Tuesday night. As of late Friday afternoon, the official complaint was still unavailable.

Johnson said a third suspect - Pete Wilson, 34, of Joliet - has not been charged by the district attorney's office because the Milwaukee Police Department never brought charges forward to the district attorney's office.

"I don't know why they never brought the charges to us," he said. "I just know they didn't."

Milwaukee police said the Joliet man was charged with local citations for disorderly conduct and assault and battery after he punched his sister in the mouth as she tried to intervene in the fight. Wilson also was charged with resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Anne E. Schwartz, the Milwaukee Police Department's spokeswoman, did not return several calls seeking comment on why the police never pursued charges against Wilson.

Wilson was not locked up in Milwaukee County Jail with the other two assailants and has been free since Wednesday.

Police said Brandon Feezor, 24, of West Allis, Wisc. threw a bag of trash at a bus Tuesday night after the Cubs-Brewers game. The three men got off the bus, chased Feezor down and repeatedly punched him.

Feezer has also been charged by Milwaukee police for disorderly conduct for his role in inciting the fight. He sustained serious facial injury and lost his tooth in the fight, police said. Family members said Freezor spent much of Wednesday morning in surgery at a suburban Milwaukee hospital and had to have his jaw wired shut.

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