Milwaukee homicide; records unsealed in Bernell Hall's killing
Records unsealed in Bernell Hall’s killing
Prosecutors say she set up a fake robbery to kill her on-again, off-again boyfriend – and Milwaukee police are looking for additional suspects.
MILWAUKEE - Prosecutors say she set up a fake robbery to kill her on-again, off-again boyfriend – and Milwaukee police are looking for additional suspects.
Case details
What we know:
29-year-old Bernell Hall was gunned down in an apartment parking lot near 87th and Carmen on Nov. 1, 2024. Hall's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Ashanti Davis, was with him when he died.
Bernell Hall
Prosecutors charged Davis two months after the shooter. But now, newly-unsealed records detail how early investigators were looking at her for Hall's death – the very same day.
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The unsealed records indicate police ran Davis' number in a jail phone system in the hours after the shooting – and got a hit for calls the day before the shooting and hours after, to an inmate in Racine Correctional.
The conversations in the days before and after the homicide were key parts of the investigators' case against Davis, who prosecutors say could not explain what some of the conversations meant.
Victim's family
What they're saying:
FOX6 News spoke with Hall's sister and mother in January after prosecutors charged Davis with setting up the fake robbery homicide.
"I had already knew what had happened. I felt it in my soul. I had already knew. I just couldn't prove it," said Nicole Hall, victim's mother.
What's next:
Davis remains in jail on $100,000 bond.
Ashanti Davis
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Milwaukee police are searching for additional suspects in this case.
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