Mickey Terrell Davis, a 24-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The shooting occurred during the afternoon in the 3300 block of North 29th Street, leaving a young father dead and a family searching for answers. His death became one of the many homicides that troubled Milwaukee during a particularly violent year, but the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the identity of the person responsible remained unclear.
Born on July
5, 1991, in Milwaukee, Mickey was the son of Chad Davis Sr. and Monica Davis. He attended Milwaukee Public Schools and was employed as an assembler at a local printing company. Outside of work, he enjoyed cooking, listening to music, watching movies, dressing well, and spending time with family and friends. His family remembered his enthusiasm for preparing meals and his confidence in his cooking abilities. He was particularly devoted to his daughter, Ka'my Davis, and enjoyed buying things for his younger siblings. His death left behind a large family, including his parents, daughter, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and extended relatives.
On September 2, gunfire erupted along North 29th Street. Available homicide records place the shooting at approximately 2:48 p.m. Davis suffered fatal gunshot injuries, and his death was investigated as a homicide by the Milwaukee Police Department. Publicly available reporting does not establish what led to the gunfire, whether Davis had been involved in a confrontation beforehand, or how many individuals participated in the shooting. The absence of those details left significant questions about his final moments.
In the days following the killing, candles and memorial tributes appeared near the location where Davis lost his life. Friends and neighbors struggled to understand how someone they knew could be killed so suddenly. During a September 21, 2015, CBS 58 report about Milwaukee's unsolved homicides, Tosha Frazier, a friend of Davis, described the disturbing sight of him lying in the street. She explained that residents were frightened because they did not know what had happened or who was responsible. The uncertainty surrounding his death created fear throughout the neighborhood, where people worried that whoever committed the shooting might still be nearby.
The aftermath of Davis's murder became connected to another deadly shooting that occurred the following evening. On September 3, 2015, mourners gathered for a vigil along North 29th Street. According to allegations later outlined in a criminal complaint, several individuals attending the gathering were armed and believed they knew who was responsible for Davis's death. A confidential source told investigators that some of those present appeared angry and were discussing retaliation against people they suspected of involvement in the homicide.
The individuals identified in that separate investigation were Tommy Zollicoffer, Dominique Brown, and Damont Fipps. According to the confidential source, the men and another individual left the vigil in a vehicle. After returning, Brown and Fipps allegedly discussed having participated in a shooting near North 26th Street and West Auer Avenue. The source reported that the men claimed all three had fired weapons during the incident.
That shooting resulted in the death of Kealicia Clark and injuries to Ronald Johnson. Investigators recovered ballistic evidence indicating that three firearms had been discharged, including two. 40-caliber weapons and a Glock. 357 handgun. The confidential source believed the shooters had targeted the wrong people and that Clark and her family had no connection to Davis's murder. These allegations suggested that suspicions about who killed Davis may have contributed to another deadly act of violence, although they did not establish who actually shot him.
In September 2016, more than a year after Davis's death, prosecutors charged Zollicoffer, Brown, and Fipps in connection with Clark's killing and Johnson's shooting. Fipps appeared for a preliminary hearing on September 21, 2016, when a judge found sufficient probable cause for the case to proceed. He subsequently pleaded not guilty. Zollicoffer was scheduled for a preliminary hearing later that month, while an arrest warrant had been issued for Brown. Those criminal proceedings concerned the subsequent shooting of Clark and Johnson, not the original murder of Davis. The available reporting does not establish the final dispositions of those separate prosecutions.
Despite the information emerging from the retaliation investigation, no publicly verified account identifies the person who fatally shot Davis. The allegations surrounding the vigil demonstrated that certain individuals believed they knew who was responsible, but their suspicions were not proof. Publicly accessible reporting reviewed for this case does not confirm an arrest, criminal charges, trial, or conviction directly related to Davis's September 2, 2015, homicide.
For Davis's family, his death represented far more than another entry in Milwaukee's homicide statistics. He was a father, son, brother, friend, and working young man whose life ended before he could watch his daughter grow up. His loved ones were left with memories of his humor, his love of cooking, his enjoyment of family gatherings, and the future he would never experience. The violence that followed his death compounded the tragedy, taking another life without providing a verified answer to the central question of who killed Mickey Davis. His homicide remains without a publicly confirmed resolution in the available reporting.
