(Kenosha County Sheriff)
KENOSHA, Wis. – A 22-year-old Kenosha man was formally charged Monday with 11 criminal counts following a harrowing police pursuit that left a 4-year-old child injured and several civilians endangered.
Deshaun C. Simpson faces a slew of charges, including first-degree recklessly endangering safety, child neglect resulting in bodily harm, and fleeing an officer causing injury—all as a repeat offender. Court Commissioner William Michel II ordered $50,000 cash bail and scheduled a preliminary hearing for July 15.
According to a criminal complaint, Simpson was pulled over around 6 p.m. on July 3 near Sheridan Road and 52nd Street for operating a vehicle with suspended registration. Officers noted that Simpson lacked a valid driver’s license and that a child in the back seat was improperly restrained with only a seatbelt.
When officers returned to their squad to run Simpson’s information, he allegedly fled the scene at high speed, nearly striking an officer. The pursuit reached speeds over 60 mph in residential zones, ending when Simpson crashed into a city-owned tree near 50th Street and fled on foot, abandoning the child inside the wrecked car.
Officers found the child crying and complaining of head pain. EMS personnel treated a visible bump to the child’s head at the scene. Simpson was located shirtless and sweating several blocks away, where police recovered a THC-labeled marijuana product in his waistband and discovered an active probation warrant.
Simpson initially provided a false name for the child and made no attempt to contact anyone about the child’s welfare, according to police.
The incident endangered multiple people, including a pedestrian officer and two civilians stopped in traffic at the time. One witness told police she was terrified when Simpson’s vehicle swerved near her own with her child inside.
Simpson’s criminal history includes a prior felony burglary conviction in 2019, making him eligible for repeat offender penalties on each count. If convicted on all charges with repeater enhancements, he faces decades in prison.
He remains in custody at the Kenosha County Jail.
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Father of the year, NOT!
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Put him down.
This selfish punk needs to spend the rest of his life in prison!
Please obtain all of the facts…. what is reported is not true.