Angelin Benson, 42, a Black woman, was found shot to death inside her home on the 2300 block of North Hubbard Street in Milwaukee on December 27, 2009. That Sunday afternoon, someone fired a round through her front door, the bullet striking her in the abdomen while she was alone inside. Officers discovered her shortly after 4 p.m., the quiet of the house broken only by the evidence of a single, deliberate shot that pierced the entryway and ended her life.
Neighbors awoke to the sight of
police cars lining the street as detectives worked the narrow front steps and storm door for clues. The manner of the attack suggested a shooter who never crossed the threshold, a person close enough to the door to aim and fire but distant enough to leave little behind. There were no immediate indications of a robbery or home invasion; the violence arrived at the doorway and stopped there.
In the days that followed, authorities released few specifics beyond confirming how the shot was fired. A police spokeswoman stated that no arrests had been made, and investigators did not publicly identify a suspect or announce any clear motive. Over time, the case slipped into the unsolved column, the details distilled to a date, an address, and the stark fact that a single shot through a front door took a life and left a family and a neighborhood with unanswered questions.
