Kurt Steven Pierzchalski, 35, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of June 8, 2016, in Milwaukee’s Johnson’s Park neighborhood. Officers responded about 2:14 a.m. near North 18th and West Vine streets and found him lying in the roadway outside a house he had recently purchased and was renovating. He was pronounced dead at the scene; his longtime companion, Sarah Alvarez, said he had been shot twice in the back.

Pierzchalski and Alvarez had been developing the property into an urban farm after the birth of their daughter, Penelope Kaia Rose Pierzchalski, planting a roughly 40-yard garden and planning to keep chickens. The house had a troubled history of strangers coming to the property, and Alvarez later suggested he may have gone outside to investigate a disturbance; police had not publicly confirmed a connection between those earlier incidents and the shooting. Detectives had not identified a suspect by June 9, 2016.

He was remembered at a June 12 candlelight vigil and buried after services on June 14 and 15. If anyone knew Kurt, his work on that property, or saw activity near North 18th and West Vine on June 8, please share what you know.