Corey Williams Sr., a 47-year-old Black man, was fatally shot inside a Milwaukee apartment on July 2, 2025. Police responded to gunfire at about 2:40 p.m. in the 1100 block of West Atkinson Avenue and found Williams in the living room with numerous gunshot wounds to his arm, shoulder, chest, abdomen and groin; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators recovered firearms at the residence, including a 9 mm handgun reported near Williams’s body.

According to the criminal complaint, the shooting occurred during a family confrontation. Williams’s son, Corey D. Williams Jr., had been asked to leave the apartment about two weeks earlier and returned the day of the shooting with his mother and brother to pick up other children. Williams Jr. told police his father grabbed and forced him during a physical struggle and that he saw a handgun, grabbed another handgun and fired more than five shots.

Williams Jr. admitted firing the shots, was arrested the next day and initially charged with second-degree reckless homicide while using a dangerous weapon. The case resolved in court on February 12, 2026, when he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon or explosive; the court stayed a five-year prison sentence and placed him on five years probation with conditions including no firearm possession.