Derrick Carson, a 38-year-old African-American man, was found dead inside a vehicle with its engine running in an alley near North 16th Street and West Olive Street in Milwaukee on October 26, 2016. Milwaukee police classified his death as a homicide but the publicly reported accounts offer few forensic or investigative details. Reports do not say how long Carson had been in the vehicle, what led him to that location, or whether anyone else was present when he died.

Carson’s killing came during an intense stretch of violence in the city; police were investigating eight homicides between October 23 and October 26, 2016, and his name appears in the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission’s 2016 annual report. If anyone knew Derrick Carson, was in that neighborhood that evening, or has information about the vehicle and who was with him, please come forward.