Alicia Renee Machnik, 29, was found shot to death on January 14, 2026, inside a room at the Port Motel on West Appleton Avenue on Milwaukee’s northwest side near Timmerman Airport. Machnik and her partner, Lance Devon White, had checked into the motel on January 12. A motel employee spoke with Machnik about 11:30 a.m. on January 14; surveillance shows White leaving the room at about 11:36 a.m. and no one else entering or leaving afterward until a motel employee returned around 2:38 p.m. and found Machnik on the bed with a gunshot wound to the head. A spent 9mm cartridge casing and an intact bullet that appeared to have blood on it were recovered, along with numerous belongings linked to White, including identification and other personal documents left in the room.

Police focused on White after footage placed him in the room shortly before the death and showed him leaving before Machnik was found. White was arrested at a hospital that evening; the criminal complaint says he admitted firing the fatal shot and gave detectives an account that Machnik had asked him to shoot her in an area of her face where his name was tattooed.

If anyone stayed at or worked at the Port Motel on January 14 or has information about Machnik’s movements that day, please share what is known with investigators.