Tommie Ollee Triggs, a 21-year-old Black man and U.S. Army veteran who played football at Horlick High School in Racine, was killed in Milwaukee on the evening of November 16, 2025. Gunfire erupted in the Rufus King neighborhood near West Congress Street and North 19th Place shortly before 7:30 p.m. A doorbell camera about two blocks away recorded more than a dozen shots. Triggs was found badly wounded near a porch banister on the 4300 block of North 19th Place and died at the scene; Develle M.

Gholson also died after being found on the 1900 block of West Congress Street. Investigators said both men were struck during the same outbreak of gunfire but did not publicly explain what sparked the shooting or whether either victim had been specifically targeted. Milwaukee police had not announced an arrest and had not released a suspect description, motive, or details about what preceded the shooting. Triggs’ family remembered him as laid-back and recalled his love of fishing and the military service honored at his funeral.

Did anyone in the Rufus King area see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?