An angry Milwaukee Police Chief Nannette Hegerty made a rare appearance at Thursday's regular morning news briefing with reporters, standing beside Deputy Chief Brian O'Keefe, as he ripped Channel 4 for what he called "despicable" behavior after anchor-reporter Courtny Gerrish called the wife of a boxing instructor killed in a shooting.
The city's top cops say Channel 4 called the family home before police had time to inform relatives of Scott Huggins' death on Wednesday. And they say it's out of line for relatives to learn such tragic news from a reporter, rather than police.
"We were on our way to notify them when Ms. Gerrish made the phone call," says police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz.
But Channel 4 news director Bill Berra counters that it was never the station's intention to break the news of Huggins' death - and he says he's surprised by how long it took for police to notify the family.
"I'm just terribly upset that we were put in the position of having to tell the family," Berra says. "And I apologize to them in every way possible. We didn't think we'd be telling the family 4 1/2 hours after the event."
"In our world, four hours is not a long time. We want to be absolutely sure that we have the identity of the person, that we know where to find the next of kin," she says. "If the media call and ask, we let them know that family notification has been made
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