Ramon Coporan-Lopez, a 40-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was shot to death in the early morning hours of October 11, 2009, on Milwaukee’s south side. Shortly after 2:30 a.m., he was attacked outside the La Espanola tavern at 2237 W. Forest Home Avenue; records list him under the alias Jorge A. Espoda-Pillot. The killing unfolded in front of the neighborhood bar’s entrance, placing it squarely amid the nightlife bustle that gathers along Forest Home in the pre-dawn hours.
Publicly available summaries identify him by name, age, gender, and ethnicity but offer few official details beyond the location and time. La Espanola itself had been the subject of municipal scrutiny earlier in 2009, when city officials moved not to renew its tavern license; a judge’s restraining order briefly allowed it to continue operating past a January expiration, situating the business in a swirl of attention months before the shooting outside its door.
Despite periodic mentions on case-listing sites and crime-mapping portals, there is no public indication that police announced an arrest or publicly named a suspect in the homicide. Crowdsourced cold-case profiles still present the case as needing information, and contemporary local databases do not show a resolved status tied to a named defendant. As of the most recent updates available online, the killing of Ramon Coporan-Lopez remains without a publicly reported suspect in custody.
