Dante M. Quezaire Jr., a 21-year-old Black male from Milwaukee, was critically wounded in a shooting on September 1, 2017. At approximately 11:40 that morning, he was brought to a Milwaukee-area hospital suffering from a serious gunshot wound. Rather than responding to a known shooting scene, investigators were confronted with an immediate mystery: Quezaire had been dropped off at the hospital, and police did not know where the shooting had actually occurred.
Quezaire remained alive after reaching the hospital, but his injuries proved fatal. Milwaukee police later announced that he died on Saturday, September 2, 2017. Although the shooting occurred on September 1, contemporary news reports and his published obituary both give September 2 as his date of death. The uncertainty surrounding the original shooting location left detectives without an immediately identified crime scene from which to recover physical evidence, locate witnesses, or establish exactly what had happened before Quezaire was taken for medical treatment.
Police continued trying to determine where Quezaire had been shot and what circumstances led to the gunfire. Investigators publicly stated that they were still seeking a motive and searching for a suspect or suspects. The available reporting did not identify anyone who had been with Quezaire when he was wounded, describe the person who transported him to the hospital, or disclose whether investigators eventually established the location where the shooting occurred.
Away from the circumstances of his death, Quezaire was remembered as a Milwaukee native who had attended Riverside High School. His memorial information described him as someone who enjoyed playing football, watching Green Bay Packers games with his father, and spending time with his mother and other family members. His parents were identified as Dante Quezaire Sr. and LaQuita Quezaire, and he was survived by siblings and an extended family. Funeral services were held September 19, 2017, at Assembly of God Central on West Burleigh Street in Milwaukee.
No publicly available reporting located for the case identifies an arrest, criminal charge, trial, or conviction in connection with Quezaire's killing. Later cold-case listings continue to associate his murder with the Milwaukee Police Department, indicating that the case has remained without a publicly identified resolution. What began with Quezaire arriving at a hospital with a life-threatening gunshot wound therefore left investigators with fundamental unanswered questions—not only who shot him and why, but where the shooting itself had taken place.
