Homicide reported on west side
Police report a homicide on Milwaukee's west side.

Anne E. Schwartz, spokeswoman for the Milwaukee Police Department, said a 58-year-old woman was found dead in Coop's Tiny Tap, 5501 W. Vliet St., at about 1:30 p.m. A male employee of the bar came in to do some work and found the body, Schwartz said.

Police are still investigating the manner of death, said Schwartz.

If the woman's death is confirmed as a homicide, it would be the 11th in Milwaukee this year, compared with 16 at this time last year, according to police.

so sad

that is so horrible! hopefully he is caught soon!

it really bothers me. stuff like that just does not happen on THIS side of town. thats why the mayor and alderman murphy were out there soon after. Its just a big shock, unlike some other parts of town where crap like that happens more frequently. Not to diminish any crime like that anywhere, but its really that feeling of "not in my backyard" "not in my neighborhood" "not here" being gone.

I see the occasional detective car circling around my block today and heading up towards the bar. I also drove past again on my way to Walgreens. There are a bunch of big teddy bears out front.

This was a place I liked to go to occasionally on summer nights after grilling out for a bloody mary. Its really small but just a nice neighborhood place. More than a few times when doing laundry downstairs, I'd not have enough quarters, so I'd head up to Tiny Tap to get a tapper and some change. Pam would go "hey its laundry night again hey?" and usually pour a second tapper on the house. Nice lady who really liked people.

hey?
She just opened the bar too, was there even any money to take even!?!

Husband Speaks Out About Wife's Murder In Bar
Ty Milburn
Katie DeLong
Charles Benson

MILWAUKEE - The victim in Mondays cold-blooded murder may have known her killer.

Milwaukee police need help finding the person who gunned down Pam Roberts inside Coops Tiny Tap bar Tuesday afternoon.

Pams family and friends are pleading for information.

The crime is already affecting the neighborhood around 55th and Vliet.

Pam was a mother, a new grandmother, loving wife and devoted friend and employee.

The owner of Coops says they are closing up shop for good, because without Pam, there is no Coops.

The brutal murder has sent shockwaves through this community and left a hole in the heart of Pam's husband. He says he wont rest until his wife's killer is behind bars.

It wouldnt Tinys without Pam. She was the bar, Tom Roberts said.

Tom Roberts met his wife Pam at Tiny Tap eight and a half years ago. It was love at first sight.

We knew, she knew, I knew, and we've been together every day. Everything we do, we do it together, Tom Roberts said.

Their love story turned to tragedy on Tuesday.

It has devastated me. They took my life. They took everything away from me, Tom Roberts said.

By all accounts Pam was the heart and soul of tiny tap. She spent 18 years there serving up drinks and creating a home away from home to the customers she treated like members of her family.

She listened to their stories. She took their misery. She counseled them when she could. She was a great person, Tom Roberts said.

Tom is in so much pain he can't stop shaking. He says even if it takes the rest of his life, he is determined to bring his wife's killer to justice.

It's the anger, the hatred, the fear I have because this guy might do it again. It might not be your wife or girlfriend but somebody else's and he should be stopped, Tom Roberts said.

The pain was evident in the faces of Pam Roberts nieces and you could hear the heartbreak in their voices.

It's just horrible. For less than $100 somebody will take the life of person that made everybody else's life so much better, Pam Roberts niece, Sara Roth said.

Family members, friends and perfect strangers gathered outside Coops Tiny Tap Wednesday. They all started a memorial for Pam and held onto one another as they all struggled to make sense of her brutal murder.

Why would you shoot her? Why would you do that? Theres no reason to do that, Sara Roth said.

Police have surveillance video of the man they believe is Pams killer. Family members say the man shot Pam in the basement of the bar Tuesday afternoon and then robbed the place. They believe Pam had to have known him because she let him in the bar before it opened.

My aunt would never hurt anybody. For him to do this to hercold-blooded reckless negligent murderfor a hundred dollarsfor a hundred dollars, Sara Roth said.

The owner of Coops said shes had it.

This town is just so unsafe. Its just horrible, Amy Cooper said.

Wednesday, Amy Cooper had movers packing up equipment because she is shutting down the bar for good. She said Pam Roberts was the heart and soul of Coops, and without her, its over.

We cant go on without Pam. She was so much of a part of this place and we just have to shut it down. Were just done, Amy Cooper said.

Family members are gathering money for a reward.

Wow, I hope that if this is actually the guy, they find enough evidence on him to make it stick.

Yikes, I hope that if it is really him, they find enough evidence to prove his crime. But if it's not, this media coverage certainly opens up all kinds of woes and challenges for this man. Just presenting the doubt in people's minds could really mess with his life.

Ah man... that's just sick. What a horrible way to die. I hope they fry the guy.