On January 29, 2024, 16-year-old Antarion F. Hassell was shot dead on Milwaukee’s northwest side near Hopkins and Stark Streets at about 2:30 p.m. Police found Hassell with fatal wounds on the pavement; a second person, 21-year-old Dayvon T. Hood, was also critically wounded and later died. Investigators recovered four 9mm casings and ten .40 caliber casings at the scene and found a .40 caliber Glock pistol near one of the victims; no weapon was located near the other.

Initial accounts described an exchange of gunfire between Hassell and Hood, but a later arrest in July 2024 of a 16-year-old, Zaviontae Hayes, and statements in the criminal complaint introduced a different sequence. A witness who had been in a van with Hayes and Hood said the group planned to rob a man carrying a backpack identified as Hassell; surveillance footage showed a black Kia van stop, a man in red exit, shots heard shortly after, and the van later circling back.

The circumstances that led to the shootings remain under investigation. If anyone witnessed the events near Hopkins and Stark on January 29 or has information about the van or those involved, please come forward.