Anthony McDade, a 33-year-old Black man, was killed in Milwaukee on March 19, 2017. Public cold-case records identify his death as a murder investigated by the Milwaukee Police Department. His name remains among Milwaukee homicide victims whose cases have been preserved in cold-case databases, but the publicly available record provides few details about the circumstances that led to his death.
Unlike some Milwaukee homicides from the same period that generated extensive news coverage,
McDade’s killing left only a limited public trail. Available online records do not provide a confirmed account of where the fatal incident occurred, what type of weapon was used, what investigators believed the motive may have been, or what events immediately preceded the killing. What remains documented is that authorities classified the death as a murder and that the Milwaukee Police Department was the investigating agency.
The case has continued to appear in online cold-case listings rather than among cases documented as having resulted in a prosecution. No reliable publicly available source located identifies a named suspect in McDade’s murder, and no confirmed arrest, homicide charge, trial, or conviction connected specifically to his death could be found. The absence of those records does not establish that investigators never developed persons of interest; it means that no such information could be verified through the publicly accessible sources reviewed.
Years after McDade’s death, the publicly available record therefore leaves the central questions surrounding his murder unanswered. His case remains associated with the Milwaukee Police Department, with no publicly documented resolution identifying the person responsible for killing him.
