Charges filed in execution-style slaying

A 22-year-old Milwaukee man was charged Monday with an execution-style slaying on on the city's north side last month.

Daniel N. Moore faces a count of first-degree intentional homicide in the Oct. 19 incident.

According to the criminal complaint:

Police responding to a report of shooting found Sir L. Harris-Nuell, 20, reclined in the passenger seat of a car parked in the 3000 block of North Richards Street. He was wearing a seat belt, and had been shot five times in the head at close range.

Four spent .380 shells were found inside the car, two more outside. Police found a fingerprint on the car that matched to Moore.

A third man told police that he, the victim and Moore had all been sitting in the car together talking when Moore asked him to go get him a drink. While he was gone, the third man said, he heard several gunshots from near the car. He identified Moore as the man who was in the car with Harris-Nuell when he left to get the drink at a nearby house.

Moore confessed to shooting Harris-Nuell, but said he had been coerced by people who suspected the victim of being responsible for an earlier homicide. Moore said the people said that if he didn't kill Harris-Nuell, they would harm Moore's family. 

Moore further told police that Harris-Nuell had raised the gun toward him and threatened to shoot him, before he grabbed it and shot the victim. But police say Moore's reenactment of his actions did not conform to the physical evidence.

Moore is being held at the Milwaukee County Jail on $100,000 bail. His next court date is Nov. 25.

Contact Bruce Vielmetti at (414) 224-2187 or bvielmetti@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ProofHearsay.