On the evening of January 22, 2018, a dispute in Milwaukee turned deadly when 40-year-old Frank Johnson was shot near 27th and Kilbourn at about 9 p.m. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene after the argument escalated to gunfire.

The Milwaukee Police Department described the suspected shooter as a known male, indicating the victim and suspect were not strangers, and opened a homicide investigation. Beyond that initial announcement, no public information about an arrest or the identification of a suspect has been released, and the details of the argument that preceded the shooting remain undisclosed.