Carl Thurmond, a 64-year-old Black man, was shot and killed on February 14, 2025, near North Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and West Concordia Avenue in Milwaukee. The shooting took place in daylight just outside a neighborhood liquor store a short distance from where family members said he lived. Surveillance footage captured a man following Thurmond, approaching from his left with a handgun, firing, and then firing again after falling and getting back up as he left the scene.

Investigators recovered two fired .40-caliber GFL cartridge casings near Thurmond’s body and later seized a black cellphone that had been dropped on a porch during the suspect’s flight. A witness inside the store said Thurmond had tried to enter but was pushed away by James Mann Jr., and surveillance images were compared with a Facebook profile linked to that name and a BOO MAC nickname. Police say they also recovered .40-caliber ammunition and a winter coat believed consistent with the shooter’s clothing.

Thurmond’s relatives remembered him as a beloved grandfather, brother and neighborhood handyman. No clear motive has been publicly established for why the confrontation turned deadly. Does anyone have information about Thurmond, where he spent time that day, or the events outside the liquor store?