Brandon D. Hinton, 26, a man from Milwaukee, was fatally shot on Sunday night, September 26, 2021. Police were called around 8:05 p.m. to the area near 61st Street and Carmen Avenue, where first responders found him with a life-threatening gunshot wound. Milwaukee Fire Department personnel treated him at the scene, but he did not survive. His death was later noted among people lost to gun violence in Milwaukee on that date.
Neighbors on the city's north side described a tense evening as officers worked the block and taped off the street, part of a cluster of residential streets that includes Bobolink and Carmen just off 61st. Initial reports from the scene gave few specifics about what led up to the gunfire, only that the shooting unfolded quickly and ended with a life taken before the night was over.
Detectives said the circumstances were under investigation, and they asked anyone with information to come forward. At the time, there was no description of the shooter and no one in custody; police publicly stated they were seeking an unknown suspect. Available public records for that night and subsequent local reporting did not announce any arrests connected to Hinton's killing.
