On the morning of February 27, 2015, Lennair Davis, a 56-year-old Black/African American woman, was fatally shot while sitting in a car in the 4500 block of N. 28th St. on Milwaukee’s north side. The shooting occurred around 8 a.m. when another vehicle pulled up alongside and someone inside opened fire; Davis was struck in the head and died from her injuries.

Davis was riding with her son, Howard D. Davis, who was on his way to the courthouse for a trial related to a June 6, 2014, homicide. Police quickly asserted the attack was targeted and believed Howard, not his mother, was the intended victim. Authorities described the killing as motivated by revenge tied to an ongoing cycle of retaliation: the 2014 killing charged against Howard and another man was itself linked to an earlier shooting of Howard in summer 2013.

A pretrial hearing for Howard Davis was postponed because he witnessed his mother’s murder. At the time of initial reports, police were investigating but no arrests had been announced. Does anyone have information about the events that morning or knew Lennair Davis and can help investigators?