Rydell DaRonn Ards-King, 16, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of September 13, 2021, near Sherman Boulevard and Burleigh Street in Milwaukee. A sophomore at John Marshall High School and described as Black / African American, Rydell was one of the city’s youth victims of gun violence that year; he was the 19th homicide victim aged 17 or younger in Milwaukee in 2021.

The circumstances of the shooting remain unclear. After his death, family and friends held a vigil at the scene that was itself disrupted by a second shooting, which wounded five people — two 15-year-old girls, a 30-year-old man, a 35-year-old man, and a 64-year-old man — all with non-life-threatening injuries. Milwaukee police were investigating Rydell’s homicide and had not publicly identified any suspects or announced arrests.

If anyone has information about what happened near Sherman and Burleigh on September 13, 2021, please share what you know with investigators.