Licenses Committee recommends revocation of Gas and Food licenses after series of shootings and robberies

The Licenses Committee voted unanimously Jan. 31, 2025 to recommend revocation of multiple city licenses for Gas and Food, 4295 North Titonia Avenue, following testimony about an April–August 2023 series of violent incidents at the business and apparent noncompliance with an amended plan of operation.

Chair Jocasta Samaripa convened the special, remanded hearing on file 240903. Sergeant Guadalupe Velasquez of the Milwaukee Police Department summarized police reports showing repeated calls for service: a shots-fired call on Nov. 11, 2022; armed robberies on Feb. 8 and April 14, 2023; a June 22, 2023 incident in which officers said suspects fled after a clerk reported shots fired and three rounds were discharged; and an Aug. 16, 2023 shooting at the site in which officers say the victim was shot by a store employee. Velasquez told the committee the property had been placed under nuisance designation, completed a 45-day abatement monitoring period in May 2023, and that a new nuisance letter was drafted in August 2023 after the fatal…