On the evening of March 17, 2022, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 24-year-old Stefan Owens was shot and killed while sitting in the driver’s seat of his car near 96th Street and Brown Deer Road. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office determined he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Earlier that night Owens and the mother of his child, who had broken up the previous September, had an encounter. She says Owens had been threatening and physically harming her and damaging her property. That night she was in her car with their child when Owens pulled up alongside her; she drove away and Owens followed. Frightened, she called her brother, Roger Powell.

Surveillance video from a nearby church and school shows a dark-colored car pull up next to Owens’ vehicle, yelling between the cars, then a man identified as Roger Powell exiting his vehicle, walking to Owens’ driver side, raising his hand and firing five shots through the window. After the shooting Powell returned to his car and left. The child’s mother found Owens slumped over and bleeding and called 911, saying her brother may have been the shooter.

If anyone saw the area around 96th and Brown Deer Road that evening or has information about the shooting, please come forward.