Deandre Hart, a 40-year-old Black man, was killed in Milwaukee on August 5, 2017, when gunfire erupted outside a north-side neighborhood bar near West Chambers Street and North Mother Simpson Way. Hart was outside the establishment known as Good Times when he was struck by a bullet; police classified his death as a homicide. Family members said he was not involved in whatever prompted the shooting and described him as an innocent bystander. Hart’s sister, Amanda Hart, said another person had been shooting when her brother was hit in the back, leaving him no apparent chance to escape once the violence began.

Neighbors had long complained that the bar was a nuisance, and relatives said the location was especially painful because family members lived nearby and were forced to repeatedly pass the place where he had been killed. Four days after the homicide, on August 9, the bar was heavily damaged by a fire that gutted the building; city officials ordered the owner to clean up debris the next day. The killing left Hart’s three children without their father; the youngest was reported to be ten years old.

Does anyone who lived near West Chambers Street in August 2017 or who remembers that night have information that could help the investigation?