{"id":167831,"date":"2025-09-25T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167831\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:36:08","slug":"new-father-on-golf-trip-shot-and-killed-while-walking-to-hotel-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167831\/","title":{"rendered":"New father on golf trip shot and killed while walking to hotel, family says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (WTMJ) &#8211; A tourist visiting Wisconsin for a golf trip was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting while walking back to his hotel, his family says. It\u2019s not clear who committed the crime or why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police found Giovanni Michael \u201cMike\u201d Robinson suffering from a gunshot wound around 12:08 a.m. Wednesday in Sheboygan Falls. He was pronounced dead at the scene, despite lifesaving efforts from first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say a preliminary investigation revealed Robinson was shot by an unknown person driving a vehicle. The motive remains unclear, and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Giovanni Michael \u201cMike\u201d Robinson, a tourist from Canada, was visiting Wisconsin on a golf trip...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3IVALD4PDFAT7K7CB2VN7556SU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"547\" \/>Giovanni Michael \u201cMike\u201d Robinson, a tourist from Canada, was visiting Wisconsin on a golf trip when he was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.(Source: Family photo, WTMJ via CNN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Robinson\u2019s family is devastated and looking for answers. They say he was a new father, visiting the area from Canada on a golf trip. He sent them a photo Tuesday celebrating his first-ever hole-in-one at a nearby golf course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A bartender at Falls Tap says Robinson was a customer Tuesday night, adding he and his group were kind and there were no issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident has shocked residents of the typically quiet community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cQuiet, safe and friendly,\u201d said Melody Walls of the area. \u201cI feel like if you don\u2019t feel safe here, where are you safe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is a small, little community, and we\u2019re all really close. So, it just really shocked me,\u201d Jill Schuessler said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police are looking for the suspect vehicle, which they described as a small, dark-colored SUV. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WTMJ via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (WTMJ) &#8211; A tourist visiting Wisconsin for a golf trip was shot and killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,86427,622,58162,86425,86426,82,86424,1994],"class_list":{"0":"post-167831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-drive-by-shooting","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-golf-trip","13":"tag-new-father-shot-and-killed","14":"tag-shot-while-walking-to-hotel","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tourist-fatally-shot","17":"tag-wisconsin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}