Joaquin Mendez was 23 and from Tampa when he was killed on September 10, 2016. His cousin, 24-year-old Alexandro Garibaldi, took out a handgun and fired, striking Mendez in the chest. Mendez was found outside the house with a gunshot wound and later died at a hospital.

Investigators located the vest inside the house and observed a projectile entrance hole, and a witness contradicted Garibaldi’s initial statement that he had found his cousin already wounded by reporting that Garibaldi fired the shot. Garibaldi was arrested and charged with manslaughter and being a felon in possession of a firearm and was held without bond at the Hillsborough County Jail.

If anyone knew Joaquin, his movements that day, or has information about what happened at the house, please share what you know.