Luis Ares was 22 and from West Allis when he was killed on the morning of December 23, 2025, outside the College Court Apartments near South 20th Street and West College Avenue in Oak Creek. Multiple 911 callers reported gunfire involving two vehicles shortly after 8 a.m. Ares was found inside a white GMC Acadia that had sustained multiple bullet strikes, crashed into a tree and had broken windows; he was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck by four bullets, one of them fatal to the chest.

Investigators say surveillance footage showed a black Infiniti following Ares from his residence to the apartment complex and a passenger hanging out of a window firing a rifle toward Ares’ vehicle before the Infiniti left. Authorities recovered extensive ballistic evidence, including 42 spent casings along a path through the area, and a handgun near a dumpster. Phone and camera records later tied Milwaukee resident London Johnson to the Infiniti; prosecutors charged him on January 27, 2026, with first-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, alleging others were involved.

The complaint includes an anonymous tip suggesting a possible retaliatory motive but presents those claims as allegations. No completed trial or conviction is recorded in the reports found. Does anyone have information about Ares, his movements that morning, or the black Infiniti seen in the area?