Zaniya Booker, a 17-year-old Black female and junior at Shalom High School, was fatally shot inside a northwest Milwaukee home on January 22, 2025, at about 4:45 p.m. She was found critically wounded in an upstairs bedroom and pronounced dead at the scene; the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Booker left behind an infant daughter who was about six months old. Her family said she had talked about becoming a beautician or possibly pursuing a career in law enforcement.

Investigators focused on the child’s father, Jveon Clark, after witnesses reported hearing a loud bang and seeing several people, including Clark, run out the back door. A firearm was recovered less than a block from the house. Phone calls alleged to involve Clark included statements that a gun had discharged and, in one account, that Clark had described the shooting as accidental. Court records also include an account that Booker had been loading a round when Clark allegedly took the gun and pulled the trigger.

Clark surrendered on February 10, 2025, told detectives he and Booker were alone when the gun discharged and said he had been trying to take the firearm apart when it fired.

Did anyone in Milwaukee know Booker, her family, or the circumstances around that home on North 28th Street and West Atkinson Avenue?