Chrisima Murry was 14 when she was shot and killed on February 23, 2017, in a Milwaukee neighborhood near North 50th Street and West Fairmount Avenue. The shooting occurred in the 5000 block of West Fairmount Avenue after reports of a fight or confrontation in the area; Chrisima was found lying on the grass outside after the gunfire. A nearby resident heard the shots and later saw the victim, and family members say many people were outside at the time and may have witnessed what happened.

Chrisima was a ninth-grade student at Assata High School who had hoped to attend Milwaukee High School of the Arts and dreamed of becoming a singer, dancer, actress and model. Her mother, LaWanda McDowell, said she had no idea why anyone would have wanted to kill her daughter and publicly appealed for witnesses to come forward. By early May 2017 the family worried the investigation was not getting enough attention; relatives and friends gathered on what would have been Chrisima’s 15th birthday to remember her and renew the plea for information.

No reporting identifies a named suspect, an arrest, charges, a trial or a conviction in Chrisima’s killing. Did anyone in the neighborhood see the confrontation that led to the shooting or have information to help identify who fired the fatal shots?