Seventeen-year-old Jalerian McDade, known to family as Big Z, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of May 6, 2025, near North 40th Street and West Cherry Street, close to Washington Park in Milwaukee. Police were called shortly before 2:30 a.m. and found McDade unconscious in the backseat of a 2008 Ford Taurus with a gunshot wound to her chest; responders pronounced her dead at the scene. Investigators recovered a single spent cartridge casing inside the vehicle.

According to the complaint, a friend drove McDade to meet her boyfriend, 18-year-old Zamaury Waheed. The friend said Waheed entered the backseat, McDade and Waheed argued over alleged infidelity, the friend stepped out and heard one gunshot, and then saw Waheed placing a black handgun into his waistband before he ran. The witness later identified Waheed in photographs. Prosecutors charged Waheed with second-degree reckless homicide while using a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent; an arrest warrant was issued. Court reports state Waheed had been adjudicated delinquent in July 2023 for a firearm-related offense, which barred him from possessing a gun.

McDade was a 10th-grade student in Milwaukee Public Schools virtual program and was remembered by relatives for her close bond with family, especially her young sister. Does anyone have information about that night or the people involved that could help the investigation?