Elijah Johnson, 22, was fatally shot inside an apartment building near 29th and Wisconsin in Milwaukee on May 18, 2021. Police say an argument inside the building escalated just after 12:15 p.m.; surveillance footage recorded a woman firing from the top of a stairwell and Johnson being struck in the back at the bottom of the stairs. Citizens outside rendered aid before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died less than an hour later. An autopsy listed a single gunshot wound to the lower back as the cause of death.

Investigators identified 21-year-old Tequila Collins as the person seen on video. The apartment manager identified her and officers located her; she initially said the gun was supposedly on safe and went off, later saying she fired to scare him and aimed at a glass window near him. Authorities arrested Collins and charged her with first-degree reckless homicide and domestic abuse with the use of a dangerous weapon. She was also charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety with a dangerous weapon for an allegedly related May 17 shooting near 18th and Vienna, where a 9mm shell casing was recovered and witnesses placed her at the scene.

Anyone with information about Elijah, the events inside the building on May 18, 2021, or the earlier May 17 incident is asked to come forward.