Hausien Hakeem Rakeem Hennings was 27 when he was fatally shot in Milwaukee on December 30, 2016. Officers responding about 10:15 p.m. found Hennings at the corner of North 6th Street and West Chambers Street with a gunshot wound. Police began CPR and continued until Milwaukee Fire Department personnel arrived, but Hennings was pronounced dead at the scene; later reports said he suffered a single gunshot to the chest.

Initial coverage gave little information about what led to the shooting, and no motive or arrest was reported then. More than a year later, police recovered a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson with its serial number filed off from Robert L. Thomas during a March 14, 2018, encounter; ballistic testing linked that gun to multiple shootings, and news reports said it matched the weapon used in the 6th-and-Chambers killing. Court records show Thomas was prosecuted and convicted in several Milwaukee County cases for other shootings and related offenses, but they do not show he was charged with Hennings’s murder. Hennings’s death remains listed in Milwaukee Police Department cold-case homicide listings.

If anyone knew Hausien Hennings or has information about what happened near 6th and Chambers that night, please come forward to investigators.