On the evening of August 14, 2019, 18-year-old Maurice Grimes was found shot to death in Milwaukee. A citizen called police about a gunshot victim in a vehicle near 7th and Pierce at about 9:30 p.m.; officers discovered Grimes in the driver’s seat of an SUV with a fatal gunshot wound to the head and he was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy confirmed the death as a homicide.

Investigators focused on 23-year-old Jamon Washington of Milwaukee after surveillance footage captured a large, dark truck without plates in the area around the time of the killing and showed a man later identified as Washington getting into Grimes’ vehicle; a muzzle flash was visible through the front windshield. Washington was arrested on August 23, 2019, and charged with first-degree intentional homicide and use of a dangerous weapon; bail was set at $100,000.

Grimes’ family remembered him as someone who loved learning how cars worked and who wanted to achieve his goals without a life on the streets. If anyone knew Maurice, the circumstances around the August 8 burglary he was suspected of being tied to, or saw that unplated truck near 7th and Pierce that night, please come forward with information.