16-year-old charged as adult in fatal shooting outside Milwaukee bar 3%
By Adrienne Davis6%
8/1/2026, 3:03:41 AM
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One of three teens accused of an attempted robbery that ended with the death of 35-year-old David Krause has been charged as an adult in connection with the killing, according to a criminal complaint filed July 30.
Breontae M.
Tyler, 16, is charged with three felonies: murder, operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent and arson of property other than a building.
If convicted on all counts, Tyler faces up to 42 years in prison and $20,000 in fines.
Three boys were charged in Krause's shooting – Tyler, who was 16 at the time of the incident, one who was 14 and one who was 15.
Prosecutors unsuccessfully sought to waive one teenager into adult court earlier in July.
Another juvenile’s waiver hearing is scheduled Aug.
12.
A fourth teenager was arrested after the shooting but was not charged, according to a previous Journal Sentinel report.
Krause was shot and killed outside the Harbor Room in Walker’s Point
According to the complaint:
Around 7:46 p.m.
April 14, Milwaukee police responded to 125 E.
Greenfield Ave., after numerous 911 calls were made for a report of a shooting incident near the Harbor Room, a bar in Walker's Point.
Callers told police that the victim, identified as Krause, was shot after getting out of a white vehicle during a physical struggle.
They told officers the suspects who were responsible for the shooting got back in the white vehicle.
Officers found Krause outside the Harbor Room and began rendering aid, but he was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m.
An autopsy determined Krause died from a contact-range gunshot wound to the chest.
A detective recovered a single .40-caliber casing, a spent copper projectile, and a backpack and ballcap belonging to Krause at the scene.
Detectives later interviewed Krause's girlfriend, who was with him the evening of the shooting.
She told police she picked up Krause around 3 p.m. to go hang out at different bars.
After visiting several bars, she said she and Krause argued about his intoxication.
After leaving one bar, Krause asked to be let out of the vehicle and said he would catch a bus.
She told police they stopped and he got out at the BP gas station at 1009 S.
First St.
He later called her and said he was getting a ride from four unknown males he had met at the gas station.
She warned him that it was not a good idea and offered to pick him up, but he declined.
Krause's girlfriend then stated she heard Krause talking to the four males in the background before the phone call ended.
Police reviewed video from the BP gas station and outside the Harbor Room
Surveillance video from the BP gas station showed Krause approach a white Hyundai Sonata occupied by several people around 7:30 p.m., and eventually get into the vehicle.
The Sonata later returned to the gas station, where Krause and several others went inside.
Around 7:41 p.m., video showed Tyler, the 14-year-old and the 15-year-old move away from Krause and appear to have a private conversation before rejoining him.
Krause then purchased a beverage for a female who was with the group.
At 7:43 p.m., Krause left the gas station with the group and got into the back seat of the Sonata.
Tyler was driving when the Sonata and a second vehicle left the gas station.
About a minute later, surveillance video from Rockwell Automation showed the Sonata stop near the Harbor Room on East Greenfield Avenue.
Krause was then seen running toward the bar's entrance as Tyler and the 14-year-old chased him.
Tyler appeared to grab Krause from behind before he and the 14 year old struggled with Krause in the alley outside the bar.
The 15-year-old approached but remained several feet away from the struggle.
Moments later, that teen ran across the street while Tyler and the 14-year-old returned to the Sonata, a sequence investigators said was consistent with a gunshot being fired immediately before the three fled.
Additional surveillance video showed the Sonata speeding away about 15 seconds after the shooting.
Less than two minutes later, the second vehicle returned and picked up the 15-year-old before leaving the area.
Police later identified the stolen vehicles
Investigators determined that both vehicles connected to the homicide, a white Hyundai Sonata and a gray Hyundai Tucson, had been reported stolen.
License plate reader cameras captured the vehicles traveling together about an hour before Krause was killed.
The Sonata had been stolen from a Milwaukee business earlier that afternoon.
Surveillance video showed the Tucson entering the parking lot near the Sonata around 4:30 p.m. before both vehicles left the area minutes later.
About 25 minutes after Krause was shot, authorities responded to the Sonata on fire near North 60th Street and West Hope Avenue.
An arson investigator determined the fire had been intentionally set.
The Tucson, which had been reported stolen the previous day, was recovered abandoned later that night with damage to its steering column and a missing door handle.
Police used video and interviews to identify teens allegedly involved in Krause’s killing
Investigators identified the people involved through surveillance footage, GPS information, interviews and other evidence.
One boy who was with the group told police that while they were at the BP gas station, Tyler and another male discussed robbing Krause after he approached the group asking for a ride.
The boy told investigators he was driving the gray Hyundai Tucson when the group left the gas station and was not present for the shooting.
Afterward, the 15-year-old called asking to be picked up near First Street and Greenfield Avenue.
While riding a bus later that evening, the 15-year-old allegedly told him that Tyler pointed a gun at Krause during an attempted robbery and shot Krause as he fought back.
A female who was inside the Sonata told investigators Tyler was driving when the group left the BP station with Krause.
After the vehicle stopped near the Harbor Room, Krause, Tyler, the 14-year-old and the 15-year-old got out while she remained inside.
She then heard a single gunshot.
The female told police that Tyler and the 14-year-old returned to the vehicle after the shooting.
When she asked whether they had shot someone, she said the two laughed and denied doing so.
She also told investigators that the group later went to the Capitol Drive area, where the 14-year-old gave Tyler a lighter to set the stolen Sonata on fire.
The 15-year-old told detectives that the group had discussed robbing Krause because they believed he might have a gun in his backpack.
He said Tyler showed him a gun and identified it as a Glock.
The teen said Tyler and the 14-year-old began punching Krause near the Harbor Room in an attempt to take his backpack before Krause grabbed Tyler's gun while fighting back.
The teen said he heard gunfire and ran from the scene.
Police found Tyler hiding in the attic while executing a search warrant at a Milwaukee residence, according to the complaint.
Tyler's sister later identified him in BP surveillance footage.
Tyler denied involvement with the shooting
During an interview with detectives, Tyler denied recognizing himself or anyone else in surveillance images from the BP gas station.
He told investigators he was home with his mother at the time of the homicide.
Tyler also denied knowing the others in the group, ever being inside the stolen Sonata or having any involvement in setting the vehicle on fire.
Diane Krause says public safety should come first
In a July 31 interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Diane Krause, David Krause's mother, said she is frustrated with how the juvenile justice system has handled some of the teens accused in connection with her son's death, specifically those she says had repeatedly been involved in the justice system before the April shooting.
“When you see repeat offenders that are consistently put back into the system, given therapy, and then turning around, cutting off their GPS and going right back to what they did, I believe that they need to be tried as adults,” Krause said.
Krause said the court proceedings cannot change what her family has already lost.
“My son is gone.
I’m never going to get him back,” Krause said.
“I don’t understand why this happened.”
Krause said she believes juveniles who commit serious crimes should face adult consequences.
“The only thing that will change is if they start charging juveniles with adult crimes to do adult time,” she said.
David Clarey contributed to this report.
Adrienne Davis is a general assignment and breaking news reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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