Eriberto Valadez Jr., 14, was shot on the afternoon of January 12, 2022, in an alley behind 3939 West National Avenue in West Milwaukee. Police were called about several suspicious vehicles; officers found two cars in the alley and the teenager wounded inside one of them. He was pulled from the vehicle and taken to Froedtert Hospital, where he died. The shooting occurred around 3:15 p.m., and officers set up a perimeter after believing someone had fled the scene.

Charging documents later described a chaotic confrontation linked to a Hyundai Elantra reported stolen earlier that day, with the car’s movements and a meeting in the alley near 39th and National preceding the gunfire that struck Eriberto. Early police statements did not announce arrests, but the investigation continued and developed in the months afterward.

Did anyone in the area that afternoon see the stolen Hyundai or the people involved in the alley near 39th and National?