Jamal M. Mathis was 26 when he was found dead in Utica, New York, on December 19, 2015. His body was discovered in the backyard of a residence on the 1100 block of Leeds Street with multiple gunshot wounds.

The investigation extended beyond a year. In March 2017 Utica police arrested 19-year-old Ricky Woods Jr., of nearby Yorkville, charging him with second-degree murder; Woods was already in Oneida County Jail on separate attempted murder and kidnapping charges from January 2017. The first trial in 2017 ended in a mistrial; a second trial concluded in July 2018 when a Oneida County jury found Ricky Woods Jr. not guilty of second-degree murder in Mathis’s death.

Are there details about Jamal Mathis’s life or the scene on Leeds Street that anyone can help clarify?