Joseph Victor JoJo Torres, 19, was fatally shot inside a residence in the 1300 block of South 10th Street near Alabama Avenue in Sheboygan on the evening of January 17, 2026. Police were dispatched shortly after 8 p.m. and found Torres critically wounded with gunshot injuries to his head or neck, chest, and abdomen; he was taken to Aurora Medical Center in Sheboygan County and died from his wounds. His girlfriend, Natalie Gonzalez, was also shot near her shoulder and back and survived after transfer to a Green Bay hospital.

Investigators say the violence grew out of a planned firearm transaction. Two Milwaukee residents, Lawrence S. Buford Jr. and Onterio M. Girley, were later arrested and charged in connection with the attack. Prosecutors charged Buford with first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, possession of a firearm by a felon, and armed robbery as a party to a crime; Girley was charged with felony murder connected to armed robbery as a party to a crime. Both pleaded not guilty and the cases remained pending in Sheboygan County Circuit Court.

Torres was known to family and friends as JoJo and remembered as loving and devoted. Can anyone who knew JoJo or has information about the January 17 incident come forward?