On the evening of December 29, 2022, 18-year-old Jaelen Yracheta and his 17-year-old cousin Ava Allen were found fatally shot inside a vehicle near 5th Avenue and Bay Heights Road in South Milwaukee. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office pronounced both teenagers dead at the scene and ruled their deaths a double homicide. Yracheta suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body; Allen was shot in the head.

Doorbell surveillance footage captured a man with a noticeable limp approaching and entering the car; roughly ten seconds after he got in, flashes consistent with gunfire appear on the video. Investigators recovered Yracheta’s iPhone in a sewer about half a mile from the scene, and texts on the phone showed he had arranged to meet someone on Bay Heights minutes before the shooting to sell marijuana. The phone number linked to those texts tied to an IP address at the home of 22-year-old Brandon Randall, who had a limp from a recent gunshot wound and was arrested on January 10, 2023. A 9mm Glock 17 with a silencer seized from Randall was forensically linked to the killings.

Randall was charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and later pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree reckless homicide. On June 3, 2025, a judge sentenced him to 36 years in prison plus 14 years of extended supervision. Did anyone in the South Milwaukee area know Jaelen’s or Ava’s regular contacts or movements that night?