UPDATE 3/9/26 at 12:30p.m. – The suspect in a deadly weekend shooting at a popular Shorewood park is found dead in a Milwaukee home.
A woman, identified by the Medical Examiner’s office as Renesia Thompson, was found shot to death in a car at Estabrook Park late on March 6. Around 12 hours later, authorities were called to a home near 19th and Nash on Milwaukee’s north side, where a man identified as Jalun Cotton was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the living room.
Sheriff’s officials are calling the shooting an act of domestic violence, and they say there is evidence that confirms the suspect’s connection to the victim and the crime scene. The gun used in the shooting is the same one found in the Milwaukee home, according to authorities.
If you or someone you know is suffering from domestic violence, there are resources available in Southeast Wisconsin. You can call the Sojourner Family Peace Center’s 24 hour hotline in Milwaukee at 414-933-2722, or The Women’s Center in Waukesha at 262-542-3828. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is also available 24/7/365 at 1-800-799-7233 with services available in more than 290 languages with the help of a trained interpreter.
The following is an earlier version of this story:
SHOREWOOD, Wis. — No one has been arrested after a 29-year-old woman was killed in Estabrook Park Friday evening.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office received a call at 11:39 p.m. The caller reported hearing a man and woman arguing in the park, followed by gunfire.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene due to a single gunshot wound.
The suspect is still on the run.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office at (414) 278-4788 or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at (414) 224-TIPS.
