Left: Ronald Fuller (Milwaukee County Jail). Right: LaKeyshia Timmons (GoFundMe).
A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty on Monday to shooting his ex-girlfriend to death, claiming the “devil” made him walk to her home and kill her.
Ronald Fuller, 53, entered a guilty plea to the charge of second-degree reckless homicide in the 2024 death of LaKeyshia Timmons in Milwaukee. Fuller is slated to be sentenced in May.
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According to a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, Milwaukee police responded around 7:30 a.m. to a ShotSpotter report of gunfire in the 2700 block of N. 18th Street on the city’s north side. When they arrived they found a woman, later identified as Timmons, suffering from a gunshot wound to her side. Paramedics pronounced her dead on scene.
Detectives found nine shell casings about 65 feet from Timmons’ body. Cops spoke with one of her sons, who said he woke up to gunfire and looked outside his bedroom window. He saw his mom on the ground and a man with a “distinct limp” walking away from her. The son ran outside to aid his mother, who was breathing but not responsive. He later realized the man he saw walking away was Fuller, whom he had known for about seven years and was the father of his younger siblings. He also identified Fuller from his arrest photo and said he was wearing the same clothes as the man he saw earlier in the day, according to the affidavit.
Surveillance video captured Fuller’s movements prior to the shooting. It showed him walking around the house as Timmons returned to her home in a van. As she got out, she saw Fuller approach her.
“Ron, what the f— you doing Ron?” she said, according to the affidavit. “Don’t play with me Ron, don’t play with me Ron. Ron no, I am your baby momma dude, what the f— is wrong with you Ron? Ron stop playing.”
The video showed Fuller walk away with the limp.
Investigators later learned Timmons and Fuller were in the midst of a “messy” custody dispute over the three children they shared. He had found out where she lived from another one of her children.
In a post-Miranda interview with cops, Fuller admitted to shooting his ex-girlfriend. When asked why, he said he didn’t know. He said “the devil” made him walk over to her home.
Timmons was a mother of eight children. In a GoFundMe fundraiser, her daughter detailed the history of domestic violence Fuller allegedly inflicted on Timmons.
“My mother went through all the avenues to insure safety from this man but he some how found our new address and plotted to kill our mother after she dropped my siblings off at school he waited until she returned home and took her life,” Latanilia Timmons wrote.
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