{ "id": "2025-07-07-marquette-university-norris-park-shooting", "slug": "marquette-university-norris-park-shooting-2025-07-07", "institution": { "name": "Marquette University", "shortName": "Marquette", "state": "WI", "type": "private-r2", "alertSystemName": "MU Safety Alert", "enrollment": 11102 }, "incident": { "date": "2025-07-07", "type": "shooting", "cleryCategory": "timely-warning", "resolution": "confirmed-threat", "headline": "Shots fired at 18th and Highland; bullet holes in a house and vehicle", "summary": "On Monday evening, July 7, 2025, around 8:00 PM CDT, [Milwaukee Police and the Marquette University Police Department responded to a shooting](https://marquettewire.org/4138141/news/shots-fired-on-n-18th-street-and-west-highland-avenue/) at North 18th Street and West Highland Avenue, two blocks north of Marquette's Norris Park. Witnesses reported multiple consecutive shots; investigators recovered shell casings and discovered bullet damage to both a house and a vehicle on the block. MUPD sent its initial Safety Alert text at 8:04 PM CDT and a follow-up email at 9:05 PM CDT, a 61-minute delay between the two messages that drew sharp editorial criticism from the Marquette Wire student newspaper.", "outcome": "No officers or bystanders were struck. Milwaukee Police recovered evidence at the scene but had not publicly identified a suspect in the days following. The damaged house and vehicle were not affiliated with Marquette, per a university spokesperson. The 61-minute gap between the SMS alert and the follow-up email became a recurring student-paper editorial topic about MUPD's notification cadence.", "casualties": { "killed": 0, "injured": 0 }, "headlinePublic": "Shots fired at 18th and Highland; bullet holes in a house and vehicle" }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestamp": "2025-07-07T20:04:00-05:00", "timestampApprox": "8:04 PM CDT on July 7, 2025", "channel": "sms", "verbatimText": "", "isVerbatimConfirmed": false, "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from Marquette Wire reporting that 'MUPD sent out a safety alert text at 8:04 p.m.'", "annotations": [] }, { "sequence": 2, "type": "follow-up", "timestamp": "2025-07-07T21:05:00-05:00", "timestampApprox": "9:05 PM CDT on July 7, 2025", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "The Marquette University Police Department is investigating the incident below. If you have more information, please contact MUPD immediately at (414) 288-6800.\n\nInitial Incident Report\nIncident type: Shots fired\nIncident location: North 18th Street and West Highland Avenue\nApproximate time: 7:53 p.m.\nVictims: N/A\nPhysical injuries: N/A\nThe Marquette University Police Department was notified of shots fired near the intersection North 18th Street and West Highland Avenue around 7:53 p.m. Bullet holes were found in a house and in a vehicle near North 18th Street and West State Street. Milwaukee Police Department is investigating the incident and there are no suspects at this time.", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceDescription": "Marquette Today Safety Alert: Initial Incident Report for shots fired", "annotations": [ "Reconstructed from Marquette Wire's detailed account: 'a house and vehicle were found with bullet holes,' both 'not affiliated with the university,' and 'No officers or bystanders were struck by gunfire, according to MPD'", "Sent at 9:05 PM CDT — 61 minutes after the initial SMS alert, drawing editorial criticism from the Marquette Wire about MUPD's notification cadence", "The email confirmed that the bullet-damaged property was off-campus and unrelated to the university, but Marquette Police had not identified suspects as of the alert's publication", "GROWTH NIGHT flip 2026-09-21 from official Marquette Today Safety Alert. Dual-curl HTTP 200 wording-equal (cache tokens differ) plus independent web_fetch. 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The Marquette University Police Department and Milwaukee Police Department responded together; investigators later located a damaged house and vehicle on the block. A Marquette spokesperson confirmed [neither property was affiliated with the university](https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-shootings-monday-070725). MUPD's initial Safety Alert text went out at 8:04 PM CDT (within minutes of the shooting) but the explanatory email did not arrive until 9:05 PM CDT, a 61-minute lag. The Marquette Wire editorial board, which had previously [criticized MUPD for slow notifications](https://marquettewire.org/4068730/tribune/viewpoints/editorials/editorial-mupd-must-do-better-promptly-inform-campus/), again questioned the cadence. The shooting was the latest in a string of Highland Avenue gun-violence incidents near Marquette in 2024–2025, including a [drive-by shooting that wounded a 6-year-old in October 2024](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/6-old-among-three-people-140922727.html), and broader Marquette campus-adjacent gun activity that prompted [increased patrols throughout the academic year](https://wtmj.com/news/2024/10/21/marquette-students-robbed-suspect-still-on-the-loose/).", "keyFindings": [ "The 61-minute gap between the 8:04 PM CDT SMS alert and the 9:05 PM CDT email follow-up renewed Marquette Wire editorial criticism of MUPD's notification cadence under the Clery Act timely-warning obligation", "No Marquette students, faculty, or staff were injured; the damaged house and vehicle were unaffiliated with the university despite their proximity to Norris Park", "The incident continued a pattern of West Highland Avenue gun violence near Marquette's campus in 2024–2025, including a drive-by that wounded a 6-year-old in October 2024" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Shots fired on N 18th Street and West Highland Avenue (The Marquette Wire)", "url": "https://marquettewire.org/4138141/news/shots-fired-on-n-18th-street-and-west-highland-avenue/", "type": "student-newspaper" }, { "title": "Shots fired near Marquette University campus, police investigate (FOX6 Milwaukee)", "url": "https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-shootings-monday-070725", "type": "local-media" }, { "title": "EDITORIAL: MUPD must do better, promptly inform campus (The Marquette Wire)", "url": "https://marquettewire.org/4068730/tribune/viewpoints/editorials/editorial-mupd-must-do-better-promptly-inform-campus/", "type": "student-newspaper" }, { "title": "Alert Notifications (Marquette University Safety)", "url": "https://www.marquette.edu/university-safety/alerts/notifications.php", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Safety Alert July 7, 2025 7:53 p.m. (Marquette Today)", "url": "https://today.marquette.edu/alert/safety-alert-july-7-2025-753-p-m/", "type": "official-archive", "accessDate": "2026-09-21", "archiveUrl": null, "archiveNotes": "SPN not attempted after 500 flap at 07:36Z" } ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "shooting", "off-campus", "jesuit", "catholic", "milwaukee", "norris-park", "delayed-email", "private-r2", "highland-avenue" ], "dateAdded": "2026-05-13", "lastUpdated": "2026-09-21", "addedBy": "ingestion", "responseTimeMinutes": 4 }