Frank Watts was a 52-year-old African-American man fatally shot on the night of Friday, August 5, 2016, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The shooting occurred near North 29th Street and West Vine Street; police responded to multiple 911 calls and found Watts unresponsive with gunshot injuries around 11:15 p.m. Officers attempted lifesaving measures but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Milwaukee Police Department investigated the incident as a homicide.

His death was one of three separate shootings in the city that evening, but authorities did not link those other incidents to Watts’s killing and the later arrest in a different shooting was unrelated. Initial reports did not identify a suspect, describe a motive, or disclose witness statements, surveillance footage, or physical evidence recovered from the scene. Watts’s name appears in the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission’s remembrance and online tributes from relatives recall him as loving, supportive, laid-back, and respectful.

If anyone has information about what happened near North 29th Street and West Vine Street on August 5, 2016, please come forward.