Fifteen-year-old Javeaire Winston was fatally shot in Milwaukee in the early morning hours of Monday, January 23, 2023, near 9th Street and Atkinson Avenue. According to his mother, Britney Winston, Javeaire had gone to a gas station when a car parked there began to follow him; the pursuit ended in a nearby park where he was shot and killed. He was a sophomore at North Division High School and had survived an earlier shooting in October that left him with a gunshot wound to the foot.

His mother said she had urged him then to change the friends he kept and focus on school and basketball. The homicide was one of several shootings that weekend in Milwaukee and followed another teenage fatality. Milwaukee police are investigating; no arrests or suspect identifications have been announced.

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