Christopher Carter Jr., an 18-year-old Black man from Texas, was fatally shot inside a Milwaukee residence near North 60th Street and West Sheridan Avenue on January 9, 2025. The shooting occurred shortly after 5 p.m.; Carter suffered a serious gunshot wound to the pelvic area, was taken to a hospital, and died that evening. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office publicly identified him the next day.

Investigators focused on Carter’s friend, Jaden Jenkins-Delane, who had been staying with his family and was with Carter in an upstairs bedroom when a handgun discharged. Jenkins-Delane’s mother heard a popping sound and then realized Carter had been shot; she and her son drove him to the hospital. Surveillance from the home recorded a single gunshot, a male voice saying he had been shot, and Jenkins-Delane coming downstairs carrying two handguns before briefly leaving the frame without them.

A gun tied to the incident was discarded as Carter was being taken for treatment, and Milwaukee County prosecutors charged Jenkins-Delane as an adult with homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon and with being an underage possessor of a dangerous weapon. If anyone knew Christopher, lived near that North 60th Street address, or has information about the events that day, please come forward with what was seen or heard.