Reamon S. Ward, a 31-year-old Black male, was shot and killed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 3, 2020. Online memorials and obituary notices recorded his age and date of death and marked the loss felt by family and friends in the city he called home.
That afternoon, Milwaukee police and the county medical examiner were called to a triple shooting on the city’s north side near North 27th Street and West Auer Avenue.
According to the initial report, gunfire erupted around 1:30 p.m., leaving Ward fatally wounded while two other men—ages 28 and 24—sustained injuries and made their own way to a hospital for treatment.
Detectives at the time said they were seeking unknown suspects and urged anyone with information to come forward, an early sign that the investigation faced the familiar challenge of scant eyewitness cooperation and limited leads in a daytime shooting. Subsequent public accounts and memorial listings did not report an arrest connected to the case, and no suspect information was announced in those early reports.
Ward’s death was noted in online remembrances and burial records tied to Milwaukee, underscoring the private rituals that followed the public violence. The obituary posted through New Pitts Mortuary and a gravesite listing fixed the date and place of his passing, while community pages preserved condolences and tributes in his name.
