On the morning of December 20, 1987, 42-year-old Booker Grant answered a knock at his Milwaukee home at 3224 W. National Avenue and was shot by an unknown person who then fled. The shooting ended Grant’s life and prompted an immediate investigation by the Milwaukee Police Department.

Detectives conducted extensive interviews with neighbors and others who might have seen or heard something that winter morning, but there were no eyewitnesses to the actual shooting and investigators found few leads. The investigation stalled, no arrests were made, and the case went cold. The Milwaukee Police Department’s Cold Case Homicide Unit still lists the death as unsolved and periodically reviews the evidence in hopes new information will emerge.

If anyone has information about that night, the shooter, or unusual activity near 3224 W. National Avenue around December 20, 1987, please come forward.