On the evening of December 24, 2022, Sildian Torres, 27, was killed while driving in Milwaukee with her 7-year-old son and the boy’s father. The family was en route to her mother’s house for a Christmas Eve gathering when their car was struck near 29th Street and Greenfield Avenue.

Shots had been fired earlier at a nearby convenience store in a dispute that did not involve Torres. After that altercation, someone in one vehicle opened fire toward another, and Torres’s car was hit in the driver’s side door. A bullet struck her in the back; she began spitting up blood, lost control, and the vehicle slid into another car. The boy’s father broke a window with his own gun to free their son and went to Torres’s side, but her injuries were fatal and she died at the scene.

Two 18-year-old men were arrested in connection with the shooting. One admitted to firing multiple shots at a vehicle he thought contained people from the earlier dispute and said it was dark and he was not aiming carefully. The family remains devastated by the loss on what should have been a joyous holiday.

If anyone has information about the shooting or knew Sildian, please come forward with what you can share.