Anton Gillon, a 27-year-old African-American/Black man, was killed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the early morning hours of September 28, 2016. Milwaukee police responded to the area of North 19th Street and West Fairmount Avenue at approximately 12:30 a.m. after a shooting was reported. Investigators determined that Gillon had been shot outside a residence. Later case records identify the incident location more specifically as 1912 West Fairmount Avenue.
His death was investigated as a homicide by the Milwaukee Police Department and was reported at the time as Milwaukee's 97th homicide of 2016.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, police released few details about what led to the gunfire. Authorities said the circumstances surrounding Gillon's death remained under investigation, and detectives were attempting to determine a motive. Police were also searching for the person or persons responsible. Contemporary reporting did not identify a suspect, describe a confrontation preceding the shooting, or disclose information establishing why Gillon had been targeted. No publicly reported account located in connection with the case identified the weapon used, the number of shots fired, or provided a detailed sequence of events immediately before the shooting.
The investigation apparently did not produce a publicly identified offender. Later homicide records compiled from information associated with Milwaukee police and The Washington Post's examination of unsolved murders list Gillon's killing as unsolved and identify the suspect as unknown. Those records continue to associate the homicide with the Milwaukee Police Department and the Fairmount Avenue address where the shooting occurred.
No reliable online source located for the case reports an arrest, criminal charge, trial, guilty plea, or conviction arising from Gillon's killing. The available record therefore leaves the case without a publicly named suspect and without an announced resolution. What began shortly after midnight with Gillon being fatally shot outside a Milwaukee residence remains recorded years later as an unsolved homicide, with the identity of the person responsible and the motive for the shooting still publicly unknown.
