On the afternoon of Saturday, May 7, 2022, 16-year-old Javarius Fowler was shot and killed inside a McDonald’s restaurant near 49th and Hampton Avenue in Milwaukee. According to surveillance footage, an argument between groups of teenagers escalated when 15-year-old William Harrison Jr. approached Fowler and pointed a handgun at his head. Fowler pushed the weapon away, stepped back and produced his own firearm. A rapid exchange of gunfire followed; all three boys were armed.

Fowler was struck in the chest and back and collapsed in the restaurant’s doorway as he tried to flee. William Harrison Jr. was later shot in the head and died at a hospital; 14-year-old Robert Johnson was injured by multiple gunshot wounds but survived. The dispute’s precise cause is not detailed in court documents.

Does anyone who was in that McDonald’s or who knew any of these teens have information that could clarify how the argument began?