Jorey Anderson, a 17-year-old Black/African American male from Milwaukee, was fatally shot during a chaotic eruption of gunfire on January 10, 2026, near North 34th Street and West Sheridan Avenue on Milwaukee’s northwest side. The shooting happened shortly before 6:15 p.m. and involved several people inside and around a vehicle. When officers first arrived, they found a white Chevrolet Malibu that had apparently crashed or come to a stop in the roadway.
Inside the vehicle, Zy’Kerion Teague had suffered gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead despite lifesaving efforts. Another teenager who had been wounded managed to escape from the vehicle and run to a nearby gas station for help. Anderson, however, was not located during the initial police response.
The following morning, roughly 14 hours after the gunfire, Anderson was discovered in the yard of a residence near the shooting scene. He had suffered fatal gunshot wounds. Investigators reported that a rifle was found with or beneath him, and subsequent examination connected that weapon to some of the cartridge casings recovered during the investigation. His family said he had been a high school senior who was looking forward to graduating in June and remembered him as sweet, respectful and someone who brought happiness to the people around him. His discovery the next morning also raised questions about how he had ended up in the yard and why he had not been located during the extensive police activity immediately following the shooting.
As detectives reconstructed what happened, the surviving wounded teenager provided investigators with an account that transformed the case from an initially unexplained triple shooting into an alleged robbery that had turned deadly. According to the criminal complaint, Anderson, Teague and the surviving teenager had initially been traveling together before meeting Teague’s brother and transferring into another vehicle occupied by additional people. Six people were eventually traveling together. Anderson reportedly had a small AK-style rifle concealed beneath his clothing. At some point the group stopped near 34th and Sheridan, where one of the passengers, later identified by authorities as Dashawn Conner, got out of the vehicle under the pretense of stretching his legs.
Prosecutors alleged that the stop was actually part of a plan to take Anderson’s rifle. According to the surviving passenger’s statement described in court documents, Conner opened a rear door, pointed a handgun at Anderson and demanded his possessions. Anderson then produced the concealed rifle and fired toward the front of the vehicle. The surviving witness believed that shot struck Teague, who was seated in the front passenger area. Almost immediately, several more shots were fired. The witness told investigators he believed those shots came from Conner. He was struck during the exchange but was able to get out of the vehicle and flee toward the gas station. Investigators later recovered numerous cartridge casings, a handgun near the vehicle and other ballistic evidence indicating that multiple firearms had been discharged during the confrontation.
Police eventually arrested Conner. According to prosecutors, he initially denied being at the shooting but changed his account during questioning. Investigators said Conner ultimately acknowledged participating in the attempt to take Anderson’s rifle. Conner reportedly told police that after the vehicle stopped, he got out to create additional room for the planned robbery. He said other people in the vehicle also produced firearms and that he tried to grab Anderson’s rifle. According to Conner’s account, Anderson shot him in the leg during the struggle and Conner responded by firing into the vehicle. Conner told investigators that he was not specifically aiming at anyone when he fired.
The investigation therefore presented a complicated sequence in which Anderson was allegedly the intended target of an armed robbery but also fired a weapon during the confrontation. Authorities alleged that Conner’s participation in the attempted robbery set in motion the deadly exchange that resulted in the deaths of Anderson and Teague and the wounding of the surviving passenger. Prosecutors charged Conner with two counts of felony murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Records cited in news reports showed that Conner had previously been convicted of three armed robberies stemming from crimes committed in 2021. He received a prison sentence in 2023 and was released to extended supervision in June 2025, only months before the January shooting.
Online booking information available in early September 2026 continued to list Conner in Milwaukee County in connection with two felony-murder counts, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and a habitual-criminality allegation. The online sources reviewed did not identify a completed trial or conviction in Anderson’s death by that point, leaving the criminal prosecution pending based on the publicly available information. What began as a confusing shooting scene involving a crashed vehicle and multiple wounded people ultimately developed into an allegation that an attempt to steal Anderson’s rifle triggered a rapid exchange of gunfire, leaving two people dead, another wounded and Conner facing prosecution for both deaths.
