Deandre Williams, 23, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Romell Campbell outside a Milwaukee liquor store. Williams pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide in June, according to court records. He will serve 10 years of extended supervision after his prison term and receive credit for nearly two years already served.
Campbell, 41, was shot near 23rd and Capitol on September 23, 2024. Milwaukee police found him conscious; court records say he told an officer he had been shot in the back. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead less than an hour later, according to FOX6 News Milwaukee.
The criminal complaint says Williams had spoken inside the store about a 51-year-old man killing his brother and said his brother was all he had left. Prosecutors said Williams later struck Campbell and shot him near the store’s entrance. Investigators linked those remarks to an earlier fatal shooting that day.
The Earlier Shooting
Earlier that afternoon, around 3:30 p.m. near 14th and West Locust Streets, 17-year-old Javontae Davis was fatally shot inside a vehicle. According to CBS 58, the occupants engaged a 51-year-old man, who fired at their vehicle during an earlier gunfire incident. Police arrested two other occupants of Davis’s vehicle, a 15-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man; investigators later determined the bystander had acted in self-defense…