Edwin M. Rhodes, 22, a Black male, was killed by violence in Milwaukee in the early summer of 2011. He died on June 27, 2011, at an apartment complex near 51st Street and Hampton Avenue on the city’s north side, a busy crossroads bordered by low-rise buildings and storefronts that see steady traffic even late into warm-weather evenings. The location—a cluster of apartments off the intersection—was identified in public records and later memorial accounts, which together fix both the date and the setting of his death.
Family-history notes compiled from contemporaneous details record that Rhodes was laid to rest at Graceland Cemetery in Milwaukee in early July, a few days after his death. These records, like community memorial pages, do not describe the precise manner of the killing, only that his death was the result of force, leaving an outline without the finer points that typically surface in breaking-news write-ups or police summaries.
Open sources reviewed do not identify a suspect or describe an arrest in connection with Rhodes’s killing. There is no public charging record or news account naming a person of interest for the June 2011 homicide at 51st and Hampton, and widely used archival trackers and municipal summaries from that period provide only aggregated statistics rather than case-level updates. In short, available online reporting does not document that anyone was arrested or charged in the case.
