Antonio Gee Jr. (WISN screenshot) and, from top to bottom, Damain Patrick, Keyshaun McNealy and Armier McArthur (MPD)
Three 17-year-olds in Wisconsin have been arrested for allegedly gunning down a Domino’s pizza delivery driver earlier this month in a targeted attack so they could “snatch” a free pizza. Armier McArthur, Keyshaun McNealy, and Damain Patrick were all taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count each of felony murder in the slaying of Antonio Gee Jr., authorities announced.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, officers with the Milwaukee Police Department at about 10:10 p.m. on the night of Jan. 10 responded to a call about a shooting in the 4400 block of N. Sherman Boulevard. Upon arriving at the scene, first responders located a Black male wearing a Domino’s Pizza jacket — later identified as Gee — lying motionless on the ground in the median of the street and bleeding from what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds. Officers began CPR until emergency medics arrived at the scene. Gee was pronounced dead at 10:25 p.m. that evening.
The witness who called 911 told police she heard gunshots outside of her home and looked out the window and saw “three younger black males running westbound” between a few homes down the block. She also saw a victim lying in the median of the street and suspected he was dead.
Video surveillance footage obtained by police showed Gee being approached by three people wearing all black. He begins struggling with two of them when multiple gunshots ring out. Gee goes down near the median and one of the three individuals can be seen “carrying an item consistent with a pizza delivery bag” before the three suspects flee the scene on foot.
Police found a paper receipt for the pizza next to Gee’s body and traced it back to a specific Domino’s location which provided investigators with the contact information for the order Gee was delivering. The information was linked to a man on parole who lived about a block away from the shooting and had ordered 5 pizzas to the home in the previous two months. Police executed a search warrant on the home and took a person into custody who was identified as the cousin of the man who was on parole, identified in the affidavit as “AW.”
AW told police that on the night of the homicide, “Keyshaun” came to his home and also invited someone named “Mir” and another male he did not know.
“AW stated that ‘Keyshaun,’ ‘Mir,’ and the unknown male stated they wanted to order a pizza and they were going to ‘snatch it,”” the affidavit states.
The three then ordered a pizza and left the home for several minutes while AW remained home.
“Minutes later, ‘Keyshaun,’ ‘Mir,’ and the unknown male came running back into the house, and they were running around like wild animals and they began to turn off all of the lights,” the document states. “AW says that either ‘Mir’ or the third guy was carrying a pizza delivery bag. While this was happening, (AW’s) aunt called his mom and his aunt told his mom that the three had robbed the delivery driver and not to let them back in the house.”
AW’s father then made all three of the 17-year-olds leave the home.
Gee’s uncle, Jerome Avery Sr., told Milwaukee ABC affiliate WISN that Gee was a beloved figure among his family and friends.
“You took away a good one for nothing,” he told the station. “When you took him, you didn’t just ruin his life, you ruined a community.”
A GoFundMe account to help pay for Gee’s funeral and memorial can be found here.
“To the media he’s just a pizza delivery man, but to his family he was the backbone,” his mother wrote on the fundraising page. “He was a truck driver, a landlord, a brother, a nephew, an investor. On January 10th I lost my oldest child, my only son. My son was gunned down while delivering pizza. While this has been a very stressful time, making funeral arrangements for my only son has been a lot. Please feel free to donate or share my link to help me lay my son to rest peacefully”
