On May 24, 2017, 26-year-old Tyvitta Dischler was killed in her Milwaukee home. Her five-year-old son witnessed his father, James Edward Hutchins Sr., shoot Dischler while the child was present. After she fell, the boy was struck and hit his head on the floor; he later told hospital staff that his mother stood in front of the gun and his father killed her.

Police entered the residence and found Dischler with a gunshot wound that passed from behind her right ear to her left frontal lobe. Her body had been set on fire, sustaining severe burns over about sixty percent of her body. A pathologist ruled the death a homicide.

Hutchins was arrested and initially charged with first-degree intentional homicide, physical abuse of a child, and possession of a firearm by a felon. He later pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide, mutilating a corpse, and causing mental harm to a child and received a lengthy prison sentence with extended supervision. If anyone knew Tyvitta or has information about what happened that day, please share what you know.