On the evening of March 8, 2022, 16-year-old Zarion Zakee Waheed, a Black male from Milwaukee, was found inside a car that had crashed into a tree near the intersection of 52nd and West Stark Street. Neighbors heard a loud noise around 6:42 p.m. that some first thought was thunder; that sound was a gunshot. Waheed suffered a single gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office later identified him.

The Milwaukee Police Department opened an active investigation and said it was searching for unknown suspects. No arrests had been publicly announced as of the latest reports. The motive and the sequence of events that led to the shooting remain under investigation.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Zarion, please share tips with the Milwaukee Police Department.