Richard Allikas Jr. was 34 when he was shot and killed on Milwaukee’s south side during the early morning hours of February 13, 2017. The shooting occurred shortly after 6:20 a.m. near South 24th Street and West Greenfield Avenue, with some reports placing the gunfire closer to South 26th Street and Greenfield. Emergency personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but Allikas died at the scene and police described his death as a homicide.

Allikas was the father of four. His mother, Norma Ramirez, said he had struggled with drugs in prior years but had gotten clean before he was killed, and the family sought help with funeral costs while grieving and caring for his children. Police initially released little information about what led to the shooting, searched for a motive and for whoever was responsible, and no suspect was publicly identified in the immediate aftermath. The identity of the shooter and the motive remain unknown.

Did anyone in the area on the morning of February 13, 2017, see or hear anything that could help explain what happened to Richard Allikas Jr.?