Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Tosa Teen Charged with Attempted Shotgun Murder of Stepfather

In argument over prom tuxedo, 18-year-old chases stepdad from home and shoots him in the back. Defendant also faces three counts of armed robbery in other incidents.

An 18-year-old Wauwatosa man has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly shooting his stepfather in the back with a shotgun after an argument over getting him a tuxedo for prom on May 14.

Jazmin Troy Fair, of 9510 W. Capitol Dr., is named in a criminal complaint issued by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office. He was also charged with three counts of armed robbery on May 22 in a separate incident, according to the Wisconsin Circuit Court System's online records.

According to the police report:

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The defendant's mother, Tonya Y. Lawal, and step-father, Suraju S. Lawal, arrived at their home just before noon May 14 and almost immediately an argument began over whether the family would go to rent a tuxedo for Fair's prom.

According to Suraju Lawal, the argument began between Fair and his mother, and he was only trying to find out what was wrong when Fair called him a racial slur and told him to "get out of my face."

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Lawal said he ordered his step-son to leave, but the young man went to his bedroom and retreived a shotgun from under his bed, chased Lawal out of the house and shot him in the back as he tried to run away.

Lawal said he fell to the ground in pain, but when he heard the sound of another round being chambered in the gun, he got up and ran. He was treated at Froedtert Hospital and discharged that afternoon.

Both the mother and the defendant gave slightly different versions from the step-father; in their stories, the step-father first threatened to kill Fair after calling him a "bastard child."

Fair then ran from the scene and left with his girlfriend, a 17-year-old Milwaukee girl who had been waiting in her car. The girl has been charged with harboring a felon.

Wauwatosa police found Milwaukee officers already on the scene, and for nearly an hour the initial investigation was "confused," the report said, by a misunderstanding over which department had jurisdiction. After first relieving Wauwatosa officers and conducting their own search of the home and surroundings, and interviewing Tonya Lawal, Milwaukee police realized that the incident had occurred wholly within Wauwatosa.

Two days after the shooting, at his mother's insistence, Fair returned to his family's home and gave himself up to police. He gave police a statement about himself and the argument, but when asked about the actual shooting he declined to say more without a lawyer present.


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