Destiny Carter, a 22-year-old Black woman from Milwaukee, was shot dead inside an apartment on the morning of September 11, 2023. Police found her in a bedroom at New Hampton Gardens Apartments near 24th and Hampton around 6 a.m.; she had suffered two gunshot wounds to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. A man was also wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment of a laceration.

Officers in the area heard a commotion and encountered a naked, blood-covered man near a minivan and a woman with three children inside. The woman, identified as 31-year-old Michelle Silas, told officers she didn’t mean to shoot and didn’t try to. Prosecutors later charged Silas with first-degree intentional homicide. The criminal complaint alleges Silas arrived at the apartment, found Carter having sex with the father of her children, remained in the room about 10 minutes, then shot Carter in the back of the head; the complaint says Carter bit the man, causing the laceration treated at the hospital, and that Silas fled, gathered her children, and left.

Silas made an initial court appearance on September 15, 2023, and a judge set cash bond at $100,000. The case was proceeding through the Milwaukee County court system that month.

If anyone knew Destiny or witnessed the events at New Hampton Gardens Apartments that morning, please share what is known with investigators.