A night that began with the promise of a party ended in tragedy for 19-year-old Black / African American woman Erika Walker on March 7, 2015, in Milwaukee. Walker was attending a house party near 35th and Auer when a fight broke out. In an effort to protect someone from being attacked, a man accompanied Walker into a bedroom. While they were inside, gunshots were fired through the closed bedroom door. Walker was struck and later died at the hospital; an autopsy determined she suffered six gunshot wounds.

Investigators linked 18-year-old Jovan Mull to the shooting after party witnesses identified him as the shooter. Mull was arrested on March 23, 2015, initially on unrelated robbery and shooting charges, and later charged in Walker’s death. A jury found Jovan Mull guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in April 2016, and in June 2016 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison followed by 10 years of extended supervision.

Did anyone who attended that party or lived near 35th and Auer that night see something that could add clarity to how shots were fired into that bedroom?