Emilio Garza, 52, known as the Señor Elote Man, was shot and killed on the evening of August 28, 2020 while pushing his street vendor cart near 11th and Grant on Milwaukee’s south side. Born Filigonio Ramirez Montes in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, Garza had sold corn on the cob in that neighborhood for about two decades and also played bass guitar in a cumbia band.

Surveillance video shows two men approach Garza from behind; a struggle followed and he was shot, then chased onto the steps of a nearby home where he was shot multiple times. Officers arriving about 9 p.m. found him deceased with nine gunshot wounds; the assailants took $138 and fled. Investigators tied the killing to an earlier armed robbery the same day after shell casings from both scenes were matched.

A suspect, 31-year-old Antoine Alphonse Jr., was arrested September 5 after a long vehicle pursuit during which he fired a handgun from a stolen vehicle; he was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and armed robbery. Two 17-year-olds, Diamond P. Harris and Jeremiah Johnson, were later arrested on related charges. Did anyone in the neighborhood know Garza as a vendor or musician and have information about that night?