Milwaukee woman with Georgia connections on FBI’s Most Wanted list

ATLANTA — A woman accused in the shooting deaths of a Milwaukee woman and her unborn child in March has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and federal officials say she may have ties to Georgia.

According to an FBI news release, Shanika S. Minor, 24, of Milwaukee, was added to the most wanted fugitives list Tuesday and is being sought for her alleged involvement in a first-degree intentional homicide, a first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child and an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. There also is a $100,000 reward for information leading directly to her arrest, FBI officials said.

Special Agent Stephen Emmett, with the FBI office in Atlanta, said in an email Tuesday that the agency had no other details on Minor’s Georgia connection, other than she has extended family somewhere in the state.

“The brutal murder of a mother and her unborn child is reprehensible,” Robert Shields, special agent in charge of the FBI Milwaukee Division, said in a news release. “The FBI will provide all of our available resources to assist the Milwaukee Police Department in locating and apprehending this violent fugitive, Shanika S. Minor, to include placing her on the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ list.

“Given that Minor’s alleged crime involved the use of a firearm, she should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.”

According to the FBI release, warrants were taken for Minor on March 9. The release states that Minor got into an argument with the shooting victim, who was nine months pregnant, late on March 5, a week after Minor’s mother, a neighbor of the victim, complained that the woman was playing music too loudly and at an unreasonable hour.

Authorities said Minor was reported to have been brandishing a firearm and trying to get the woman to fight her during that confrontation, which her mother tried to stop, and that Minor fired the semi-automatic handgun into the air. The FBI release said Minor had the impression the victim was disrespecting her family.

The FBI report says Minor returned to the neighbor’s residence just before 3 a.m. March 6 and again confronted the victim, this time at the rear door of her residence. Minor’s mother got between the two women and attempted to calm the situation, but authorities say Minor allegedly reached over her mother’s shoulder and a shot the victim in the chest.

The woman collapsed inside her residence and both she and her unborn child, which was due within a week, died before emergency personnel arrived. The FBI says that Minor fled and has not been seen since.

Authorities describe Minor, a native of Mississippi, as a black female who is 5-feet-6 and weighs 165 pounds. She has a medium build, black hair and brown eyes. The FBI says she has a tattoo of roses in which not all the petals are colored in on her abdomen, and that the tattoo covers a previous tattoo. She also may have contact with people in Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio and Illinois.

Minor is the 509th person to be placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since its establishment in March 1950.