Grant D. Young was a 25-year-old Black male whose life was taken by gun violence in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 20, 2017. Public homicide records identify Young’s death as a murder investigated by the Milwaukee Police Department. Memorial records created after his death likewise state that he was killed in Milwaukee that day, marking another young life lost during a period in which the city was experiencing persistent gun violence.
Young suffered fatal gunshot injuries during the
July 20 incident. Although surviving online records confirm that his death resulted from violence and was classified as a homicide, detailed contemporary reporting about the circumstances of the shooting is limited. Available public sources do not provide a reliable account of what led to the confrontation, whether Young was specifically targeted, or whether the shooting developed from an argument, robbery, dispute, or another circumstance. Because those details cannot be independently established from the available reporting, the events immediately preceding the gunfire remain unclear.
Young was remembered by people who knew him after his death, and online memorial information indicates that he was also known by the nickname “5 Woo.” Memorial contributors described him as a relaxed or “chill” person and indicated that he had attended South Division High School. The same memorial information indicates that he was a father, adding another dimension to the loss suffered by his family and those closest to him.
The Milwaukee Police Department is identified as the law-enforcement agency responsible for the homicide investigation. However, publicly accessible sources located for the case do not identify a named suspect in Young’s killing, and no reliable online record was found establishing that anyone was arrested, criminally charged, tried, or convicted specifically for his death. There is likewise no publicly documented motive or confirmed description of the person or persons responsible in the sources presently available.
As a result, Grant Young’s homicide remains a case for which the public record provides confirmation of the killing but comparatively little information about the investigation that followed. Unless law enforcement developed information that was never publicly released, the identity of the person responsible and the circumstances that brought Young into the path of the gunfire have remained outside the available public record.
