A phone dispute in the early hours of May 22, 2022, escalated into deadly gunfire in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Fifteen-year-old Storm Vondrashek and a friend, Jackson Greengrass, drove to an apartment complex on the 1900 block of South 7th Street after being given a location. They waited outside when resident Sage Hicke came out and a confrontation turned violent. Officers arriving on a shots-fired call at about 1:24 a.m. found Vondrashek in the driveway with multiple gunshot wounds; he died at 1:43 a.m. Greengrass was also shot but survived.

Investigators recovered numerous shell casings and a firearm believed to belong to another person involved in the altercation. The incident was not described as random. Greengrass was arrested the next day on misdemeanor weapons-related charges and released on bond. On June 3, 2022, Sage Hicke turned himself in and was charged with 1st Degree Intentional Homicide in Storm Vondrashek’s death.

If anyone has information about where events that night began or who else was present, please share what is known.