A woman who in 2025 fatally shot a dentist and dental director during a noise dispute at an apartment complex in Wisconsin has been sentenced to probation, according to a story published on June 15 on Fox6 Milwaukee.
Keionna McGowan, 27, was sentenced on June 12 to three years in prison and three years of extended supervision for the shooting death of 41-year-old Dr. Akintunde Bowden, a dental director at Milwaukee Health Services. However, the judge stayed the sentence and placed McGowan, who pleaded guilty in February 2026 to the lesser charge of negligent homicide, on three years of probation, according to the story.
Keionna McGowan.The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office.
Additionally, the judge ordered McGowan to remain sober and barred her from having a firearm, according to the story.
On April 19, 2025, McGowan was reportedly in her apartment trying on clothes, doing her hair, and listening to music when she heard someone aggressively banging on her door. McGowan told the authorities that she opened the door and saw Bowden, who appeared to be intoxicated and yelling incoherently about her music. She claimed she felt threatened by his behavior.
After she reportedly told Bowden that she would turn her music down, she shut her apartment door. Then she allegedly heard Bowden kicking her door so hard that it shook her apartment. She told police that she feared he might try to break into her home, so she got her gun and reopened her door.
McGowan claimed that she fired one gunshot when Bowden made a kicking motion toward her.
Dr. Akintunde Bowden.Milwaukee Health Services Inc.
When police responded to a shots-fired call, McGowan was wearing a dress and no shoes and running from the apartment complex. She was yelling for help and saying that someone was in her apartment.
Police found Bowden face down in the doorway of McGowan's apartment with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The dentist was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy revealed that Bowden died from a single gunshot wound, which traveled through multiple organs and vertebrae.
Bowden’s fiancée told police that the dental director had been at home watching basketball prior to the shooting. His fiancée said there had been previous complaints about noise at McGowan’s apartment, but Bowden had never personally confronted her.
