Cory Fritz, a 33-year-old man from the Appleton area, was fatally shot in Milwaukee after being lured to a meeting that prosecutors say was set up as a robbery. Fritz traveled to Milwaukee to meet friends and to sell what he believed were marijuana edibles near North 43rd Street and West Good Hope Road. Prosecutors say Gregory Hamilton arranged the meeting and worked with Travis Cooper to turn it into an armed robbery. Surveillance footage and witness accounts reportedly show Cooper moving through the neighborhood and appearing to wait for Fritz’s arrival; prosecutors describe Cooper as the person who carried out the robbery while Hamilton helped arrange it.

According to the complaint, the robbery became violent when Fritz resisted. Cooper allegedly struck Fritz in the head with a firearm, which Cooper said then discharged accidentally, wounding Fritz in the head.

Fritz’s family remembered him as a loving son, brother and uncle who grew up near Appleton, played on two state-championship football teams at Kimberly High School, and loved Star Wars, LEGO and his dogs Panda and Cooper. Does anyone who knew Cory or saw activity in that neighborhood around March 3-4 have information to share?