A family member says the two women shot and killed at a Wisconsin home are 42-year-old Okeyin Riles, and her daughter 19-year-old LaDasia Porter.
It happened around 11:30 a.m. Thursday at a home near N 6th Street and West Ring Street in Milwaukee. Witnesses and neighbors said they heard a man yelling, then seconds later there were gunshots.
“When I was coming up I heard him come out the door saying, ‘oh (expletive).’ And then when I got to the house, I guess he went to his car and came back and ‘boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,” said neighbor and friend to Riles Mary Norman. “She was very nice, a very nice lady… And her daughter was nice too.”
It’s a difficult loss for Larry Riles and his family. Larry is Okeyin’s brother and LaDasia’s uncle.
He said to know them was to love them.
“With some families, it’s like ‘not this person, not this one,'” she was so big on family. “They lost an angel. When it came to my sister, they really lost an angel… When it came to my niece, you know she was a soldier, because she’s going to protect anyone who’s around her. She was young and bright.”
He said LaDasia was trying to protect her mother from a domestic violence situation.
“He ended up shooting LaDasia and then shooting my sister,” he said.
The two were their rock and light in hard times for their family.
“Anytime she [Okeyin] came into the building you knew she was there because everyone around her is going to have a good time,” Riles said. “She’s going to make sure you’re smiling and having a good time, she was just a beautiful person.”
The two leave behind several other children and siblings.
Milwaukee police said they are looking for the shooter, but do know who it is.
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.
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