Debra L. Casey, a 45-year-old White/Caucasian mother of six, was found dead in Milwaukee on October 6, 2019. She was discovered unresponsive inside her still-running car near 14th and Orchard with a fatal gunshot wound; the timeline in reports places the incident around 6 a.m.

Security camera footage from a nearby home showed a white Buick stopping in the street. A witness who reviewed that footage said it appeared a man in the vehicle was brutally beating Casey. After the car rolled across the intersection and stopped, the man reportedly approached Casey’s car and fired a single shot that killed her.

Police arrested 26-year-old Trayvonn Brown in the days that followed and charged him with second-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon. According to the criminal complaint, Brown said he and Casey were in the car when she tried to take a bag of crack rocks, the vehicle crashed, and he fired one shot at the car while trying to scare her; Brown’s family offered a public defense of his character.