William Washington, a 54-year-old African-American man, was shot on the evening of August 23, 2011 near North 13th Street in Milwaukee. Officers responded to reports of gunfire and found him with multiple gunshot wounds; he did not survive the attack. Public death notices later recorded his passing as August 24, 2011, a day after the shooting, and funeral arrangements were handled by a local chapel with services at Mt. Ararat Missionary Baptist Church.
Detectives canvassed the neighborhood and opened a homicide investigation, but no contemporaneous public reports identified a suspect or a motive. There is no record of an arrest announced in the local press or publicly accessible databases for this case, and cold case listings continue to summarize the incident without naming a perpetrator. Broader year-end summaries from Milwaukee authorities for 2011 discuss citywide homicide patterns and clearances but do not attribute any suspect to Washington’s killing. As of the latest available open-source information, the case remains unsolved.
