On the morning of June 28, 2017, 19-year-old Ramsey Wheeler was fatally shot during a robbery-related incident on Milwaukee’s northwest side near N. 94th Street and W. Silver Spring Drive. Wheeler and his brother had driven to the area to buy marijuana and were sitting in their SUV when two men approached the vehicle. According to the brother, one of the men, identified as 21-year-old Theodore Reese, pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at them and moved it between the two brothers. The brother accelerated to flee and multiple gunshots were fired at their SUV.

Ramsey Wheeler was struck in the face and, despite being driven to a nearby hospital, died of his injuries. His brother survived. Investigators later arrested Theodore Reese and 34-year-old Jeffrey Ward; the criminal complaint says Ward admitted firing his gun about six times and that roughly eight to ten shots were fired between the two suspects. Reese was on bail at the time for an unrelated armed robbery charge, and Ward had prior armed robbery convictions. Were there any witnesses in the area that morning who saw the encounter or the suspects approaching the SUV?