Left inset: Steven Merkel (Walworth County Sheriff’s Office). Right inset: Steven Merkel’s 8-year-old stepson Michael Meagher ...

Showing up over Zoom in jail-issued clothes, 52-year-old Steven Merkel appeared before a judge Tuesday afternoon. The Walworth County man is being held on referred charges for first-degree ...

A Lake Geneva man is now charged in the death of an 8-year-old boy in the Town of Geneva. Steven Merkel faces a single count of first-degree reckless homicide. When police arrived, Merkel told ...

Steven Merkel, 52, of Lake Geneva, was charged Thursday with reckless homicide and use of a dangerous weapon. At around 2:25 a.m. Monday, Town of Geneva, Wisconsin officers were dispatched to the ...

52-year-old Steven Merkel has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide after the alleged accidental shooting of ...

The incident happened at a residence in Geneva, about 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee.Steven Merkel faces up to 60 years in prison, with potential sentence enhancement for using a dangerous weapon.

PROSECUTORS SAY 52 YEAR OLD STEVEN MERKEL SHOT NINE YEAR OLD MICHAEL MAYER EARLY MONDAY MORNING. MERKEL TOLD DETECTIVES HE WAS SHOWING THE BOY HIS GUN AND TOOK THE MAGAZINE OUT OF HIS HANDGUN AND ...

When police arrived the boy’s stepfather, Steven Merkel Jr., told them: “I did something stupid,” according to the complaint against him that was obtained by local media. Merkel “seemed ...