12 Facts About Sylville Smith

Video from the officer's bodycam showed that Sylville Smith had turned with the gun in his hand toward the officer just before the officer shot him.

The deceased man, later identified as Sylville Smith, was shot about 20 seconds after the traffic stop was conducted.

Sylville Smith started carrying a gun on his person after being shot at or robbed several times in separate incidents.

Sylville Smith had been arrested or ticketed eight times for robbery, carrying a concealed weapon, theft, heroin possession, and other crimes.

Sylville Smith was wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting, as were two other officers at the scene.

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Sherelle Sylville Smith said that Heaggan-Brown was jealous of Sylville Smith's popularity and would often harass him because of it.

City officials refused to release the police body camera video showing Sylville Smith's shooting pending the approval of the state Department of Justice.

Sylville Smith was alive when the second shot fatally struck him in the chest rupturing his heart and a lung.

Heaggan-Brown testified that Sylville Smith was reaching for his waist when the second shot was fired.

However, the video allegedly shows that Sylville Smith was never searched for a second firearm by the officers.

Civil lawsuit filed on June 21,2017, by Sylville Smith's family sought compensatory damages and attorney fees from Dominique Heaggan-Brown and the city of Milwaukee, as well as punitive damages from Heaggan-Brown.

Conversely, another sister, Sherelle Sylville Smith, encouraged protesters to focus the riots on suburban neighborhoods and burn them down.