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Michael Prescott, a 21-year-old Black man, was shot and killed on November 10, 2015, outside a friend’s home near 12th and Reservoir in Milwaukee. Prescott was inside the friend’s car warming it up while she stood in the doorway when a man ran up to the driver’s side and opened fire, fatally wounding him. The shooting was described as a crime of passion motivated by jealousy.

Police identified the shooter as Dwayne Chaney, the friend’s ex-boyfriend. After the shooting Chaney entered the woman’s home, struck her in the head, yelled that she was to blame and that he was going to jail for the rest of his life, then fled. He evaded capture for about eighteen months before being arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department and charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

Chaney attended the first three days of his trial but absconded after cutting off his GPS monitoring device; the jury nevertheless convicted him. On January 12, 2018, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Did anyone in the Milwaukee area have information about Michael’s movements that night or about witnesses who haven’t yet come forward?