On the afternoon of July 18, 2022, police in West Allis, Wisconsin, responded to a report of shots fired and found 24-year-old Ninoshka Maestre Lozada dead in the backyard of her home. She had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene. Lozada was a Hispanic mother of four; two of her children were inside the house when she was killed.

Investigators treated the shooting as a domestic dispute. They identified 25-year-old Wilson Medina Cruz as the suspect and said he was the father of three of Lozada’s children. Police said the couple had been in a relationship for two to three years and that the violence stemmed from a dispute involving another woman. Detectives located and arrested Medina Cruz at a local hotel the following day.

Lozada’s death was one of six shootings in a two-week span in Milwaukee County in which women of color were killed in incidents characterized as domestic violence. Does anyone have information about Ninoshka’s life in West Allis or the events that led up to July 18, 2022?