Hezile Frison pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide after the June 2025 confrontation that left his older sister dead.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting his older sister during a chaotic family confrontation that began with a dispute over social media posts, bringing the main homicide case to a close more than a year after Ashley Hudson was killed.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Borowski sentenced Hezile J. Frison on Sept. 25 to 20 years of confinement followed by 10 years of extended supervision. Frison, who was 15 when Hudson was killed, pleaded guilty July 29 to first-degree reckless homicide. He had originally been charged in adult court with first-degree intentional homicide, a more serious offense. The sentence followed a case built in significant part around cellphone video that prosecutors said showed Hudson backing away from her brother shortly before he fired.

The courtroom hearing placed renewed attention on the final moments of a family dispute that unfolded late June 16, 2025, on the 300 block of West Vliet Street in Milwaukee. According to the criminal complaint and court reporting on the case, Hudson, 30, had been confronted by family members following disagreements tied to social media posts. What began as an argument escalated into a physical fight involving a baseball bat, a knife and, eventually, a gun. Hudson was shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Borowski focused much of his sentencing remarks on the speed with which the confrontation became deadly. The judge described the scene as a volatile fight filled with yelling and people swinging a bat. Addressing Frison, Borowski said Hudson had been backing away when the teenager approached and shot her. Frison offered a brief apology in court, saying, “I’m very sorry about this.” When pressed further, he told the judge, “I want to bring her back.” Borowski answered that Hudson could not be brought back and emphasized that the shooting had permanently changed the family.

The sentence was substantially less than the possible punishment Frison could have faced under the charge filed shortly after the killing. Milwaukee police announced June 20, 2025, that prosecutors had charged him with first-degree intentional homicide. Because the case proceeded in adult court, the 15-year-old faced the criminal justice system under rules normally associated with adult defendants. More than a year later, Frison resolved the case by pleading guilty to the amended charge of first-degree reckless homicide. The September sentence imposed both a lengthy prison term and a decade of supervision after his eventual release.

Investigators said two witnesses who were not part of the family confrontation recorded portions of the disturbance on their phones after hearing the fight outside. The recordings became an important part of the prosecution’s account. According to the criminal complaint, the video showed women fighting with Hudson, including one person using a baseball bat. Hudson at one point tried to get into a parked vehicle as the confrontation continued. She later emerged with a knife, which the complaint described as being held in a way intended to keep the people confronting her away.

The confrontation changed again after Frison obtained a gun from a vehicle belonging to his mother, according to the complaint. Witness video showed him pointing the weapon toward Hudson as other voices could be heard urging him not to shoot. Authorities said Hudson was moving backward with her hands raised when Frison fired from close range. The available court accounts do not describe the encounter as a prolonged exchange of gunfire. Instead, the prosecution’s case centered on a single fatal escalation during an already violent family fight.

Frison’s statements to investigators also became part of the record. Police said he initially denied being at the shooting but acknowledged his presence after investigators showed him images from the cellphone recordings. He then told detectives that Hudson had moved toward him before he fired, an account authorities said did not match what they saw on the video. According to the complaint, when detectives told Frison that Hudson had died, he responded, “What’s that got to do with me?” He later told investigators he was ready to “do the time” because he had committed the crime.

Those statements stood in sharp contrast to the remorse Frison expressed at sentencing. Borowski specifically addressed that difference while questioning whether Frison fully understood the consequences of the shooting. The judge also acknowledged Frison’s age and difficult upbringing while making clear that those circumstances did not erase responsibility for Hudson’s death. His remarks reflected one of the central issues before the court: how to sentence a defendant who committed a homicide at 15 while recognizing both his youth and the irreversible harm caused by his actions.

The June confrontation resulted in criminal cases against two other members of Hudson’s family. Aaliyah J. Frison, Hudson’s sister, was charged with aggravated battery as party to a crime with use of a dangerous weapon. Court reporting says she later pleaded guilty to aggravated battery with a dangerous weapon. In January, a judge imposed two years in prison and two years of extended supervision but stayed those terms and placed her on two years of probation. Local reporting identified her as the family member seen using a baseball bat during the confrontation.

Tara T. Hudson, the mother of Ashley Hudson and Hezile Frison, was charged with obstructing an officer. Prosecutors said her initial description of where she was standing and what she had seen did not match the video evidence. She later pleaded guilty to resisting or obstructing an officer. Court records reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel show she was sentenced in October 2025 to seven months in a correctional facility, but that term was stayed and she was placed on 12 months of probation. Those dispositions mean neither woman received an immediate prison term under the sentences imposed.

The cases against the three relatives followed an investigation that Milwaukee police described at the outset as a tragic example of a family dispute turning into deadly violence. The department said the homicide occurred at about 11 p.m. near West Vliet Street. Early reporting described a confrontation involving Hudson, her mother and several siblings. Later court filings and local news accounts provided a more detailed sequence, including the bat attack, Hudson’s possession of a knife, Frison’s retrieval of a firearm and the fatal shot captured by witnesses.

Hudson was the mother of four children, according to local news reporting. Her death also exposed a broader history of conflict within the family. Relatives told Milwaukee media after the killing that arguments among family members had existed before the June confrontation. Court records discussed in local reporting showed prior legal disputes between Hudson and her mother. Those earlier conflicts did not determine the criminal case against Frison, but they added context to a confrontation that prosecutors said began over social media and ended with several relatives facing criminal charges.

Frison’s guilty plea eliminated the need for a homicide trial, meaning jurors were not asked to decide between the competing descriptions of the moments before the shooting. By accepting the reckless-homicide charge, Frison admitted criminal responsibility for causing Hudson’s death under the amended count. The sentencing hearing therefore focused on punishment rather than guilt. Borowski ultimately chose a prison term measured in decades, followed by extended supervision intended to continue after Frison completes the confinement portion of the sentence.

Frison must also pay $1,800 in restitution, according to reporting from the sentencing hearing. With the Sept. 25 judgment, the principal criminal proceeding arising from Hudson’s death has reached a trial-court resolution. Frison will serve his prison sentence before beginning 10 years of extended supervision, while the probationary sentences imposed in the related cases against Aaliyah Frison and Tara Hudson remain separate consequences of the same fatal family confrontation.

Author note: Last updated November 9, 2026.