Prosecutors say Bryan Schuller was eating in his bedroom when an argument involving other people in the house reached his door.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A 34-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of fatally shooting a housemate who told him he had nothing to do with an argument over text messages that had erupted elsewhere in the home, according to a criminal complaint and local reporting on the case. Bryan Schuller, 41, was found shot in a bedroom near North 37th and Brown streets on the night of Sept. 7 and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Wilson Jackson was later charged by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office with first-degree reckless homicide, two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, two counts related to possession of a firearm by a felon and felony bail jumping. Prosecutors allege the fatal shooting came after Jackson became angry about messages he saw on his former girlfriend’s phone and fired at two other people before confronting Schuller. The charges are allegations, and the publicly available reporting reviewed for this story does not establish a conviction or final disposition in the homicide case.

The confrontation began against the backdrop of what witnesses described as an otherwise ordinary gathering at the house. Jackson’s former girlfriend told investigators that she and Jackson had ended their relationship about a month earlier and that Jackson had moved out. Schuller and another man, identified in reporting on the complaint by his initials, M.D.W., were living at the home. M.D.W. was described as Jackson’s half brother. Jackson returned to the property that day because a pear tree had fallen against the house and needed to be cut down, according to the complaint. Witnesses said the men had been drinking beginning in the late afternoon.

At some point, according to witness accounts summarized in the complaint, Jackson left the house for roughly an hour. The others ordered food while he was gone. When Jackson came back at about 9 p.m., the complaint says, he went into his former girlfriend’s bedroom and looked through her phone. He allegedly found messages between her and his half brother and became angry, accusing them of having a sexual relationship. Investigators did not present Schuller as a participant in the messages that allegedly triggered the dispute. Instead, the complaint describes him as being elsewhere in the home as the confrontation escalated.

The allegations then shift from an argument to gunfire. Jackson’s former girlfriend told police that he pointed a handgun in her direction and fired two or three times. M.D.W. separately told investigators that a handgun belonging to him had been left on a table in the house and that Jackson had obtained it. He said he managed to take that firearm away, but Jackson allegedly also had another handgun. According to the complaint, Jackson fired from only a few feet away in the direction of the former girlfriend and M.D.W. Neither was struck. M.D.W. told police he believed Jackson was trying to frighten them rather than hit them, but prosecutors charged Jackson with two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety arising from the confrontation.

A struggle followed. M.D.W. told detectives that he and Jackson fought and moved into a bedroom during the confrontation. His account, as summarized by local reporting on the complaint, says Jackson eventually agreed not to shoot him. That did not end the episode. Jackson then moved toward Schuller’s bedroom, according to the charging allegations. The witnesses followed. The transition is central to the prosecution’s account because it separates the earlier dispute over the phone from the encounter with Schuller, who had not been identified as one of the people exchanging the messages that angered Jackson.

Schuller was sitting on his bed eating chicken nuggets when Jackson entered, witnesses told investigators. The complaint gives slightly different reported wording from witnesses about what Jackson said, but both versions center on whether Schuller had known about the relationship Jackson suspected between his former girlfriend and half brother. One account says Jackson asked, “You knew about this going on?” Another reporting account of the complaint says he told Schuller, “So you did know.” Schuller denied involvement or responsibility. According to the complaint, Jackson’s former girlfriend then heard another burst of two or three gunshots. Prosecutors allege Jackson shot Schuller and left the home.

The response inside the house then shifted from confrontation to an emergency. M.D.W. tended to Schuller while Jackson’s former girlfriend called 911, according to the complaint. Milwaukee police responded to the residence at about 9:15 p.m. Officers found Schuller in a bedroom with fatal gunshot wounds, and he was pronounced dead there. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office later publicly identified him. Early police statements released before prosecutors filed charges described the gunman only as a known suspect and said investigators were still examining the circumstances that led to the shooting.

The later criminal complaint added the witness accounts and a second legal issue: Jackson was already facing a separate felony gun case. Court records cited by local news organizations say Jackson had been convicted of burglary in 2010 and had been charged in May 2026 with possession of a firearm by a felon. He was released in that earlier case on a $5,000 signature bond. One condition of that release prohibited him from possessing dangerous weapons or firearms. Prosecutors allege his possession of guns during the Sept. 7 episode violated that condition, leading to the felony bail-jumping count in addition to the new firearm-possession charges.

Authorities did not immediately arrest Jackson at the scene. Police initially said they were searching for a known suspect. A warrant was later issued, and Jackson was taken into custody before making an initial appearance in the homicide case on Sept. 22, according to FOX6 Milwaukee’s review of court records. A court commissioner set cash bond at $1 million. The charging decision expanded the legal picture beyond the three offenses initially summarized in some reports: the district attorney’s office filed six felony counts, including the two reckless-endangerment charges and bail jumping.

The distinction between the allegations surrounding Schuller and the argument that preceded his death remains a defining feature of the case. Prosecutors do not allege in the reporting reviewed for this story that Schuller sent the messages Jackson found, participated in the suspected relationship or joined the earlier exchange of gunfire. The complaint instead describes Jackson approaching Schuller after the confrontation with the other two people and questioning him about what he knew. Schuller’s reported denial that he had anything to do with the situation was followed by gunfire, witnesses said. That sequence forms the basis of the reckless-homicide accusation, which prosecutors will have to prove in court.

Reporting published shortly after Jackson’s arrest listed an Oct. 1 court appearance, but the reliable sources reviewed for this article did not establish a later plea, trial result or other final disposition. Jackson therefore remains described here as accused of the offenses, not convicted of them. The publicly reported case began as a homicide investigation near North 37th and Brown streets and developed into a six-count felony prosecution built largely around witness statements, the sequence of gunfire inside the house and Jackson’s alleged possession of firearms while another gun case was pending.

Author note: Last updated Nov. 8, 2026.