Kwata S. Shields was 19 when he was fatally shot during a house party on Milwaukee’s south side in the early morning hours of June 22, 2014. The shooting happened about 1:50 a.m. in the 2100 block of S. 20th Street. A 16-year-old boy was also seriously wounded and expected to survive.

Shields was a father and a graduate of Right Step, a military-style private voucher school, where he had near-perfect attendance over five years, stayed an extra year to boost test scores, and later worked part-time helping teach math to younger students. Reports say he had faced some legal trouble after graduation but was working to resolve it and hoped to enlist in the military.

The Milwaukee Police Department interviewed witnesses but made no immediate arrests, and by late 2014 the killing remained unsolved. Funeral services were held on July 3, 2014, at Monumental Missionary Baptist Church.

If anyone has information about that night or knew Kwata, please come forward to help his family and the investigation.