Herbert T. Thomas III, a 21-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Milwaukee on the evening of May 9, 2023, near 13th Street and Hope Avenue. Police found Thomas with gunshot wounds; he was taken from the scene but later died of his injuries.

Details about how the shooting unfolded and what led to it have not been publicly released. Milwaukee police opened an investigation and an arrest was later reported in connection with a fatal shooting in the city around that time; some accounts described the person taken into custody as a taxi driver, but no widely circulated official confirmation directly tying that individual to Thomas’s death is available. The motive remains unknown.

Anyone with information about Herbert’s movements that evening or who witnessed activity near 13th and Hope is asked to come forward.