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Willie Owens was 33 when he was fatally shot on his birthday, October 24, 2016, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, near 19th Avenue and 62nd Street. He was found in the front yard of a home with multiple gunshot wounds, taken to a hospital, and later died. An autopsy showed he had been shot four times. Those who knew him recalled he was often seen in the neighborhood with his fiancée and her children, whom he would walk to and from school.

Police say the shooting grew out of an ongoing dispute involving a witness and a man identified as Raphael Rush. On the day of the shooting, Rush arrived at Owens’s home with James Butler, Edwin Johnson, and a 16-year-old named Latonio Simpson; after a fight the four left but allegedly threatened to return. More than an hour later they returned with a woman named Tracy Kennedy. Witnesses reported Butler pulled a gun and fired at least twice as Owens approached, and Simpson also allegedly fired. The suspects fled, and five people—Raphael Rush, James Butler, Edwin Johnson, Latonio Simpson, and Tracy Kennedy—were later charged in connection with Owens’s death.

Does anyone have further information about Owens, his movements that day, or witnesses who saw what happened?