Liliana Razo was 15 when she was fatally injured in Milwaukee in late summer 2008 after a gang-related confrontation. On the afternoon of Friday, September 5, 2008, insults between members of the C-14 and Mexican Posse gangs near South Division High School led to a dispersal by school security. That same day, near South 13th and West Rogers streets, the groups met again. Liliana was a passenger in a minivan with individuals associated with C-14 when a screwdriver was thrown through an open window and struck her in the head. She was taken to a police station with the screwdriver still lodged in her temple, then transported to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, where she died three days later.

Police identified 19-year-old Vidal Rodriguez-Alvarez as a suspect and charged him with first-degree reckless homicide; an 18-year-old was also taken into custody shortly after the incident. Rodriguez-Alvarez fled to Mexico and remained a fugitive until his arrest there in May 2021 and extradition to Wisconsin. The murder case against him was dismissed in November 2021 after the prosecution’s sole eyewitness, who could identify Rodriguez-Alvarez as the person who threw the screwdriver, was discovered to have been deported years earlier and could not be located until shortly before trial.

Did anyone who knew Liliana, or who was in that neighborhood on September 5, 2008, see something that hasn’t been shared publicly?