Kiana Pliska, 32, was fatally shot on July 16, 2026, outside the Lake Park Apartments in St. Francis during a custody exchange involving the child she shared with Randall Alexander Lenyard Sr. Police responded to multiple 911 calls about gunfire and found Pliska with multiple gunshot wounds near a running black Nissan Rogue. She was treated at the scene and taken to Froedtert Hospital, where she died; the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.

Court records and prosecutors’ filings allege an escalating pattern of stalking and harassment by Lenyard, including reports that he placed an AirTag on her vehicle, repeatedly appeared at her residence, damaged a door at her home the day before the shooting, and that Pliska had sought protection in April. Witnesses reportedly saw a man fire at Pliska and say she tried to flee but was repeatedly shot. Investigators say Lenyard contacted his sister after the shooting, admitted to shooting Pliska, and that the child was later recovered unharmed and placed in the sister’s care.

Milwaukee County prosecutors charged Randall Alexander Lenyard Sr. with first-degree intentional homicide and stalking.

Did anyone in the St. Francis or Cudahy area know Kiana or observe the custody exchange that day?