Chester Lenard Fisher, a 59-year-old Black/African American man, was killed on May 28, 2026, after violence erupted near North 40th Street and West Burleigh Street on Milwaukee’s north side. Milwaukee police were called to the area at approximately 12:45 p.m. after gunfire broke out during what authorities initially described as a fight. Emergency personnel attempted life-saving measures, but Fisher was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office publicly identified him the following day. Court records later cited in news coverage also identified Fisher under the name Charles L. Davis.
As investigators pieced together what happened, witness accounts provided a more detailed picture of the confrontation. According to the criminal complaint, Fisher was attempting to intervene in or break up a fight when another person arrived in a red SUV. Witnesses reportedly told investigators that the person approached Fisher and warned him to stay out of the dispute. Fisher did not back away, and the confrontation escalated almost immediately. The complaint alleged that the shooter then fired three times, striking Fisher in the chest. He was officially pronounced dead at 1:13 p.m. Initial reporting from the scene had described a single gunshot wound, but the subsequently filed criminal complaint described three chest wounds and three recovered cartridge casings.
Police quickly focused their investigation on Terrell Rimmer. Officers located Rimmer a short time after the shooting near a residence on North 35th Street. According to the criminal complaint, officers approaching him saw him discard an object that appeared to be a firearm. Investigators recovered a. 22-caliber gun nearby. Forensic examination later connected that weapon to the shooting, with authorities reporting that testing determined it had fired the three cartridge casings recovered at the scene where Fisher was killed.
Witness evidence also became an important part of the case against Rimmer. One witness told investigators that the shooter had gotten out of the red SUV, approached Fisher during the ongoing fight and told him to stay out of the situation before opening fire when Fisher refused to step aside. Investigators subsequently presented a photographic lineup, and at least one witness identified Rimmer as the person who fired the shots. The combination of the eyewitness identification, the recovered firearm and the forensic comparison of the gun to the spent casings formed the central evidence described publicly in the criminal complaint.
Rimmer was arrested in connection with the killing, and prosecutors later formally charged him with first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon. Those charges transformed the investigation from an initial fatal-shooting inquiry into a criminal prosecution alleging that Rimmer was responsible for Fisher’s death. The homicide charge alleges reckless conduct causing death rather than requiring prosecutors to prove that the killing was planned in advance, while the firearm count separately alleges that Rimmer was prohibited from possessing the weapon because of a prior felony conviction.
The criminal complaint was publicly reported in early June 2026, and Rimmer was scheduled for a preliminary court appearance on June 9. The online sources located for the case describe the arrest, the filing of the homicide and firearm charges, the eyewitness evidence and the forensic link to the recovered gun, but they do not report a completed trial or conviction as of the latest available reporting reviewed. Rimmer therefore remained an accused defendant in those reports, with the charges still allegations to be resolved through the court process.
