On the night of May 23, 2015, Jeremy J. Hollins, a 28-year-old African American man from Milwaukee, was fatally shot outside a residence in the 700 block of West Reservoir Avenue, near North 6th Street. The shooting happened shortly after 11:30 p.m. after Hollins received a phone call and stepped outside; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Neighbors initially mistook the gunfire for firecrackers and were left struggling to understand what had happened.

Hollins’ family says he had served time for armed robbery but also remembered him as intellectually curious and generous. His younger brother, Bryan, recalled conversations about history, Greek mythology and politics, and an incident when Jeremy gave his peacoat to a freezing child at a bus stop. The killing occurred amid a violent weekend and a year of rising homicides in Milwaukee; police opened a homicide investigation but did not publicly announce a motive or arrest by the time the case was revisited in December 2016.

Who in Milwaukee might have information about Jeremy’s last movements or the person who called him that night?