Justin M. Hodges, a 15-year-old Black male, was killed in Milwaukee in early October 2007. Public memorial records list his birth as February 22, 1992, and his death on October 8, 2007; he was later laid to rest at Graceland Cemetery in Milwaukee. The scant public traces of his short life and death leave only the outline of a teenager whose name survives mostly in cemetery ledgers and brief online remembrances.
Community true-crime and cold-case listings remember the case as a homicide, noting only that the death was by force and that he was 15 at the time. These compilations offer no narrative about where in the city the violence unfolded or what led up to it—just a bare acknowledgment that a life was taken and that the case lingers without an official public accounting.
Cold-case aggregators that index Milwaukee killings likewise list Justin by name with “murder” as the cause of death and reference the Milwaukee Police Department as the investigating agency, but they provide no incident synopsis, no suspect description, and no arrest history. The absence of charges or a public suspect profile in these compilations suggests that, as of the latest updates, authorities have not announced an arrest connected to his killing.
Broader public data sources that might confirm investigative milestones—such as county medical examiner tables or city crime archives—do not publish case-specific suspect information for 2007 homicides and, in homicide entries, often suppress the cause-of-death details. Within those constraints, there is no public record indicating that a suspect was identified or charged in Justin Hodges’ death, leaving the case publicly unresolved.
