Juan A. Casarez, 35, a Hispanic/Latino man, was shot and killed on August 29, 2010, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the early hours that Sunday, he sat in a car with his sister and brother-in-law near the 1300 block of West National Avenue when another vehicle pulled alongside; gunfire erupted from the other car and a bullet struck him in the neck. He did not survive his wounds, and loved ones later remembered him by his nickname, “Tony.”
Those who mourned him included a young daughter and his wife, Veronica, who gathered with family to lay him to rest in the days that followed. Obituary notices recorded his date of death and age and preserved a portrait of the family life interrupted by the violence on West National Avenue.
Police accounts and subsequent retellings indicate the assailant fired from the adjacent vehicle and then fled, and years later the case still had not produced a suspect in custody or any charges. Local trackers of unsolved cases continued to list the killing as open, reflecting a broader pattern of Milwaukee homicides from 2010 that remained uncleared by year's end.
