Milwaukee, WI
Fatal shooting outside Milwaukee bar makes some wonder what more business owners can do
A club on Milwaukee’s northwest side, which had its license suspended 20 days last year out of safety concerns, was the scene of shootings early Sunday that killed a security guard and injured two other people.
The incident happened at 1 a.m. Sunday outside the doors of Eve Lounge, 6222 W. Fond du Lac Ave., after several men were asked to leave and security attempted to de-escalate an argument, according to Thomas Holmes, the business owner.
Police said they seek unknown suspects.
The shooting drew comparisons to other incidents in recent years in which a business removed one or more people from its establishment, only for gun violence to erupt outside the doors.
“It’s a terrible situation,” said Ald. Mark Chambers, who represents the area and voted to suspend Eve Lounge’s license last year. “The bar did exactly what it was supposed to do. They ejected the gentlemen out the club.”
The shootings killed 26-year-old Andre A. Gregory of Milwaukee and wounded two 34-year-olds. The conditions of the two who shot and injured were not released.
Holmes said Gregory was hired through a contractor and worked at the club off and on for about a year. According to social media posts from friends, he attended Vincent High School.
His sister, Jamilla Gregory, set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for funeral expenses. She wrote that her brother was “loved by everyone that had the pleasure of knowing him.”
Holmes called Gregory an excellent worker.
“He was a kind, humble person, quiet,” Holmes said. “He did his job. People loved him, customers loved him. He was one of the best security guards that we had — the overall presentation and the way he handled his position.”
Fight escalated after four men left the club, owner says
At one point earlier in the night, Holmes said, three men entered the club and approached another man who was eating food. Holmes thought things looked tense when he noticed finger-pointing and twice asked them to calm down.
The men apologized and everyone eventually moved outside, along with Holmes and Gregory. There, the confrontation escalated when one man swung at another. Holmes said he and Gregory tried to prevent any physical fight.
However, a vehicle pulled up and additional people climbed out.
“Then all we heard was pop-pop-pop,” Holmes said.
He believes Gregory was not the intended target.
“We’re just dealing with it right now,” Holmes said, when asked how the rest of the staff is doing. “It’s a bad situation.”
2023 shooting at Eve Lounge resulted in license suspension
Eve Lounge came under scrutiny last year with the city’s Licenses Committee, which Chambers sits on, but also received support and words of confidence from community members who spoke at the hearing and from Chambers himself.
The main issue during that June hearing was an incident in February 2023, in which an employee shot another man who rented space in the club’s kitchen.
According to police records, none of the other six employees reported the incident to police. And when officers did arrive, employees were cleaning the place and did not appear to be forthcoming about what happened. Holmes was not on site during the incident.
Chambers said during the hearing it seemed as if the staff tried covering up what happened, according to minutes from the meeting.
Holmes said he had since fired everyone involved in the incident, began instituting background checks to all new hires and would install new security cameras and outdoor lighting.
Although he still voted in favor of a 20-day license suspension, Chambers said at the time he considered Holmes a respectable business owner.
On Monday, when asked if he still had confidence in Holmes, Chambers said, “I don’t know,” saying he was awaiting more information about the incident. He also emphasized the need to allow everyone who knew Gregory to grieve.
“Dealing with stuff like licensing can be handled at another time,” he said. “The community will definitely have an input. That establishment lost a family member. A family lost their son, brother, nephew because of it and two other individuals got hurt.”
Alderman is confident that business took steps to improve safety
But Chambers also felt confident that Holmes took action to improve safety at the club since the 2023 shooting. He said Holmes hosted community meetings, maintained communication with city officials and police and installed more lighting and cameras.
Holmes, and Chambers, to a lesser extent, emphasized that sometimes there is only so much a business can do to prevent violence among its patrons.
Chambers compared the incident to one in 2022, where a worker was shot and killed after a man was denied entry to a downtown club, and to a 2023 shooting, where five people were injured outside of a northwest side bar.
“It’s not entirely on the owner,” he said. “People make decisions.”
Holmes argued there are just too many people carrying guns and not enough of them are considering the lives of others.
“It hasn’t just happened in my establishment. It happens everywhere,” he said. “People need to think and start being more respectful of other people and stop this gun violence. It’s out of control. You go up and down the street and I guarantee you it’s eight out of 10 cars that got guns in them. A lot of it is illegal, but that’s just the way things are now.”
How to contact police
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee Police at 414-935-7360 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or use the P3 Tips app.
Where to find conflict mediation and crisis support
- 414Life outreach and conflict mediation support: 414-439-5398
- Milwaukee County’s 24-Hour Mental Health Crisis Line: 414-257-7222
- Milwaukee’s Child Mobile Crisis and Trauma Response Team: 414-257-7621
- National crisis text line: text HOPELINE to 741741 to text with a trained crisis counselor
- National Suicide Prevention Hotline: Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org
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Milwaukee Police Department (MPD)
MILWAUKEE – A shooting in Milwaukee on Wednesday, July 8 left one person wounded.
11th and Locust
What we know:
According to the Milwaukee Police Department, a 23-year-old was shot around 6:30 p.m. near 11th and Locust.
The victim arrived at the hospital for treatment.
The circumstances leading up to the shooting are under investigation.
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MPD tips
What you can do:
Milwaukee police are seeking information to identify a suspect in connection with this incident.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-TIPS or P3 Tips.
The Source: The information in this post was provided by the Milwaukee Police Department.
Milwaukee community members gathered at pop-up events across the northwest side Wednesday as part of “Peace on Every Block,” a week of activities aimed at building community, mentorship and sharing resources for violence prevention.
The week is organized by Advance Peace Milwaukee, Milwaukee Community Cross Roads and Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services.
“We want to see everybody win, and that’s the whole theme about it, about healing, coming together, stopping the violence,” Desilynn Smith of Uniting Garden Homes said.
Lorenzo Davis of Advance Peace said the northwest side was a deliberate focus for the effort.
“Because this is where the gun violence is happening, and we’re trying to end the gun violence in the city of Milwaukee. We really want to do what’s best for Milwaukee,” Davis said.
The Milwaukee Police Department reported a 30 percent drop in homicides during the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year. But community members say that progress doesn’t always reflect what people are experiencing on the ground.
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“The data doesn’t lie, that’s true, but when it’s like every day we’re hearing about a shooting, or we’re so connected to it, and so many people connected to it, it just doesn’t appear that way,” Smith said.
The events come as Milwaukee has seen several violent deaths in recent days. 42-year-old Kristy Syed was found shot to death on Milwaukee’s south side.
The Medical Examiner’s Office also identified 19-year-old Savannah Lynn, who was killed after gunfire broke out following a fight on the Fourth of July.
Nine-year-old Jade Riser died after a shooting that happened near East Burleigh Street last Thursday.
Smith said healing is central to any lasting change.
“If we don’t heal, we can’t stop anything, because violence is actually the secondary emotion that is really driven off a lot of pain,” Smith said.
Davis said the young people in these neighborhoods are ready for something better.
“They want to see a better inside Milwaukee. They want to see a better chance for Milwaukee, and they want to do something better for themselves. So, these kids out here, we promote peace with them, and we’re going to back them, and we want to see them win,” Davis said.
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MILWAUKEE — Former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan won’t serve prison time or probation and has been fined $5,000, a judge determined on Wednesday during her sentencing hearing.
It comes after a jury found her guilty of obstruction last year for helping an immigrant evade federal agents.
During the hearing, Dugan’s defense team called two character witnesses to the stand to speak on her behalf, including Rev. Gregory J. O’Meara, who is also a Marquette University Law School faculty member, and Janine Geske, the retired director of the Andrew Center for Restorative Justice and a law professor at Marquette.
“Hannah models what it means to be a Christian,” O’Meara said.
Dugan herself also spoke for the first time since the case against her began.
She told U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman that she tried to “maintain a courtroom with the decorum and safety the public deserves.”
Dugan added her actions on April 18, 2025, when the incident occurred, were “not done with any malicious intent or to advance any personal interest.”
Wrapping up her remarks, Dugan said to the court she has been cast as a scofflaw and a hero, but considers herself neither of those things.
“I am a public servant who’s just trying to do my job,” Dugan said, adding that she has had to retire from public life due to threats against her and her family.
A prosecutor then acknowledged that “she has experienced collateral damage because of her conduct,” but said “judges can’t choose to disregard the law.”
Prosecutors argued that Dugan’s actions amounted to an “abuse of trust” and asked the court’s sentence to reflect that.
Adelman then spoke, saying Dugan made a bad decision and that he doesn’t believe prison is necessary.
“This is a few minutes of conduct for someone who has dedicated her life to public service,” the judge said. “It’s a marked deviation from an otherwise law-abiding life.”
He also noted that Dugan’s actions didn’t stop the ICE agents from arresting the defendant outside the courthouse.
In April of last year, federal agents showed up at the Milwaukee County Courthouse to arrest Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who had reentered the country illegally. On that particular day, he was appearing before Dugan’s courtroom for a state battery case.
Dugan confronted the federal agents in a hallway outside the courtroom and directed them to the chief judge’s office. Following that, she helped Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a private jury door. Agents eventually caught up to him outside the courthouse.
Dugan was later arrested and charged for her part in the incident, and she was found guilty of obstruction last December; she was acquitted on her concealment charge.
Her lawyers argued during her trial that President Donald Trump’s administration sought to “crush” Dugan in an effort to ensure judicial compliance with the ICE strategy of targeting immigrants as they showed up for court hearings.
Dugan resigned the Milwaukee County circuit judgeship she had held for nine years in January amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers who labeled her an activist judge. In her resignation letter, she said her prosecution threatened “the independence of our judiciary.”
Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, who has the backing of Trump in his race for governor, urged authorities to “lock her up” in a social media post following her conviction.
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