Ronald Hollywood Butler Jr, 50, was shot and killed on July 19, 2022, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while driving with four of his children. The family was traveling to a nephew’s first birthday party when an encounter with another motorist near 89th Street and Mill Road escalated. Butler reportedly shouted at a speeding driver to slow down; a gunshot then struck him in the head. His van crashed and bystanders pulled the children, ages two to ten, from the vehicle as Butler lay dying.

Police treated the case as a road rage shooting. Investigators later arrested Demetreon Caston-Townsend and prosecutors said he fired the fatal shot after nearly colliding with Butler’s van. A witness testified that the shooter discarded a shell casing in a sewer and burned his clothes. In April 2024 Caston-Townsend pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide and received a 19-year prison term plus 10 years of extended supervision; the family said the sentence felt insufficient and remained anguished by his denial of pulling the trigger.

Did anyone who knew Ronald or saw the scene that night come forward with information?