Christopher Aguilar, a 27-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was fatally shot during the early morning hours of April 13, 2026, on Milwaukee’s south side. At about 5:30 a.m., police were called to the area of South 7th Street and West Mitchell Street, where Aguilar was found on a sidewalk in the 700 block of West Mitchell Street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. His death was investigated as a homicide.
In the first hours after the shooting, Milwaukee police said they had not publicly identified a suspect and were still working to determine what had led to the violence.
As detectives worked the case, the investigation quickly produced a lead involving a vehicle believed to be connected to Aguilar's killing. Later that same afternoon, Milwaukee police said the same vehicle was involved in a separate shots-fired incident near the 1700 block of North 35th Street. At approximately 4:47 p.m., officers spotted the vehicle and attempted to stop it. Instead of stopping, the driver fled, beginning a vehicle pursuit through Milwaukee.
The pursuit ended when the fleeing vehicle crashed on South 35th Street near West National Avenue. According to Milwaukee police, the driver was the sole occupant of the suspect vehicle. After the crash, he got out and fired at police officers. Officers returned fire, striking him. Police recovered the suspect's firearms, and authorities said no one else was hit by the gunfire during the exchange. Another person involved in the crash was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The driver was subsequently identified as Nicholas Maslowski. Milwaukee police and the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office identified Maslowski as the suspect being sought in connection with Aguilar's fatal shooting earlier that morning. Maslowski was transported from the scene of the police shooting to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. Authorities therefore never had the opportunity to bring him through the normal arrest and prosecution process for Aguilar's death.
Investigators did not publicly disclose a clear motive for Aguilar's killing in the available reports, nor did they explain what relationship, if any, existed between Aguilar and Maslowski. The publicly released information instead centered on the investigative link between Maslowski's vehicle and the homicide, the subsequent shots-fired incident, and the pursuit that ended in the deadly confrontation with police. Because Maslowski died the same day Aguilar was killed, no homicide trial or conviction followed, and the available reporting does not identify another person as having been arrested or charged in Aguilar's death.
