• Tweet
• Share
• Email
• Print

NEW BERLIN – Rows of people showed up to support the Thompson family Friday night for the visitation of Rachel Thompson and her two young sons.

And many of them were still coming to terms with the family's awful reality.

"They didn't even have time to live their life," said family friend Wyatt Elder. "It just ain't right."
 
Last week, investigators allege Brittney Robertson, along with Desmond Laster and Anthony Barnes, killed 23-year-old Rachel Thompson and her two sons, 4-year-old Torian and 3-year-old Jaden, at their south side home.
 
They say the two men later turned on Robertson, killing her. All of this violence was apparently, in part, for a few hundred dollars.
 
"It's just an empty feeling," said Todd Moreno.
 
Moreno, Thompson's uncle, spoke on the family's behalf after the visitation.
 
"I'm a man of 43. I've never been to a child's funeral and now I have to go to my great-nephew's, two of them at one time and my niece. It hurts. I'm broken," he said.
 
Moreno thanked the community and the Milwaukee Police for their support through this difficult time. It is support they'll need Saturday as they bury their three loved ones.
 
Moreno describes Rachel as a great mother with a crooked smile that would light up any room.
 
And for those who took that smile away, Moreno wants justice.
 
"It's sick. What kind of monster murders a 3 and a 4 year old and a handicapped girl? She couldn't fight back. They're sick, they're monsters."

Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday morning.