Leotis Randle, a 56-year-old African American and U.S. Army veteran, was fatally shot while waiting at a bus stop in Milwaukee on the night of May 11, 2015. The shooting happened near the northeast corner of North 27th Street and West Highland Avenue; police received a ShotSpotter alert shortly after 10:00 p.m., and a local chronicle recorded the time as about 10:06 p.m. Officers found Randle suffering from a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Milwaukee police opened a homicide investigation but did not publicly identify a motive or any suspect in the immediate aftermath. Reports did not describe an argument, a getaway vehicle, or other details about what preceded the gunfire.

The publicly documented information leaves who fired the fatal shot and why unresolved.