The violence in Milwaukee follows familiar patterns, according to the city’s Homicide Review Commission. ::Michelle Pitts is the owner of the New Pitts Mortuary, on the north side of Milwaukee. Nobody knew it, but the city was starting to face another epidemic — one concentrated in a neighborhood Pitts knew well. A sidewalk memorial near the site where Yosef Timms was fatally shot outside of his barbershop in Milwaukee. During the funeral service for Hughes, Pitts watched from the back of the church and wondered: How can things change?
