On the evening of August 28, 2014, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 20-year-old Nikola Maric was fatally shot near the intersection of 17th and Greenfield shortly before 9:00 p.m. Police found Maric lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the chest; he had a faint heartbeat when discovered but was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy confirmed a single gunshot wound to the chest as the cause of death.

Witnesses reported seeing two African-American men in the area who had a brief, argumentative encounter with Maric in a nearby alley. A gunshot was heard, Maric fell, and the two men fled; one witness said they saw a gun in Hawke Strickland’s hand. Both men were later identified in police lineups and arrested.

Hawke Strickland was charged with first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime with use of a dangerous weapon, and a jury found him guilty. He received a 25-year prison sentence followed by 10 years of extended supervision and was ordered to pay restitution. Charges against Zachary Bryant were reduced when the first-degree reckless homicide count was dismissed; he still faced a firearms-possession charge as a felon.

Did anyone in the area on August 28, 2014, see or hear anything that could add to the timeline of events?