On April 23, 2022, 23-year-old Lashont Stewart was shot and killed at a gas station at 27th and Burleigh in Milwaukee after confronting two people he believed were stealing from the business. Reports say the two left, then returned and lured Stewart out into the parking lot where he was shot twice.

His mother described him as a good young man who was working to support his family. Investigators later arrested two teenage brothers, 18-year-old Peltrion Banks and 17-year-old Lrada Cross, after an employee recognized them when they returned to the same gas station three days after the shooting. Police say the brothers were found at home wearing the same clothing from the scene and were charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

What details about that night or the suspects’ movements might help explain how a confrontation over a theft escalated to this fatal shooting?