On a late summer day in Milwaukee, the life of a young African-American man, Raymond E. Moore, was tragically cut short. On September 3, 2010, the 25-year-old was a passenger in a vehicle, traveling down the 900 block of W. Burleigh St., when the sound of gunfire shattered the afternoon calm. Moore was fatally shot in the incident, a violent end to a life that had just begun to unfold.
In the days that followed, an obituary announced that Raymond had "found peace," a somber acknowledgment of his untimely passing. The circumstances surrounding his death, however, remained shrouded in mystery. As 2010 drew to a close, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel included Raymond E. Moore's case in its list of the year's unsolved homicides. Despite the initial investigation, public records and news reports from the time do not contain information about any arrests being made or any suspects being identified in connection with his murder. The quest for justice for Raymond Moore became one of many such stories in the city that year, leaving a family to grieve and a community to wonder who was responsible for the act of violence that took his life.
