Michael “Blue” Curtis King, a Black/African American male, 66, was found mortally wounded inside a residence near North 30th Street and West Roosevelt Drive in Milwaukee on the evening of March 28, 2022. Officers who responded to the call reported finding him slumped “half on a chair and half on a footstool,” with a handgun about an inch from his right hand, the barrel angled toward his abdomen.
He was identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office as Michael King and pronounced dead from his injuries that night. The incident address was recorded along West Roosevelt Drive, where public records later tied the shooting to a specific home on the block.
Detectives quickly focused on a relative who had answered the door for police: King’s 61-year-old sister, Stephanie King. According to the criminal complaint summarized by local news, she initially told the officer that “this man shot himself.” In a subsequent interview, she said the two had argued, that her brother grabbed her jaw, and that they struggled over a gun which discharged. A witness who lived in the home told investigators he heard an argument in the living room and then five gunshots in rapid succession; he stayed in his room until officers arrived.
Prosecutors charged Stephanie King with first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon. Records show she was booked into custody in the immediate aftermath of the killing, and later listings reflect ongoing custody activity connected to the homicide charge. The Milwaukee County case was categorized as a domestic-violence homicide, and independent incident trackers placed the shooting at approximately 2920–2924 West Roosevelt Drive on March 28, 2022, shortly after 6 p.m.
Early reports on the victim’s age varied between 65 and 66, but the medical examiner identification cited in charging-document coverage named him as 66-year-old Michael King. Memorial pages and gun-violence archives that compiled the case recorded the same date and location, noting that Michael “Blue” King died of gunfire in Milwaukee that day.
