Edward Wyatt was found unconscious and badly beaten on a snow-covered road in the 2700 block of N. 16th St. in Milwaukee on the evening of February 4, 2013. He was 58, African-American, and discovered with a roughly three-inch cut on the top of his head and other injuries that left him quadriplegic and ventilator-dependent. First responders took him to Froedtert Hospital, where he was treated for hypothermia; a blood test showed an alcohol level more than four times Wisconsin’s legal limit.

Wyatt was transferred to a long-term care facility in Wausau. He died on April 24, 2013. The Milwaukee County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, attributing it to complications from blunt force injuries to the head and neck sustained in the February assault. The Milwaukee Police Department upgraded an open battery investigation to a homicide probe, but no public reports identify arrests or suspects in connection with the attack.

Did anyone in Milwaukee at the time know more about Wyatt’s last known movements or who might have left him on N. 16th St.?