In the early morning of September 19, 2020, a confrontation in an Oshkosh apartment building on Taft Avenue left 36-year-old Jarvis Gladney shot in the chest and later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Police had first been called to the building around 2:30 a.m. after Gladney’s girlfriend requested assistance and then left the apartment. About two hours later, at roughly 4:30 a.m., neighbor Ricardo Martinez-Mendez encountered Gladney in a common hallway and the two argued.

Prosecutors say Martinez-Mendez told investigators Gladney had been insulting him and his girlfriend; Martinez-Mendez said he became angry, drew a gun and shot after Gladney allegedly grabbed his neck. After the shooting Martinez-Mendez barricaded himself in his apartment, leading to a six-hour standoff before he surrendered and was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide. The case went to trial in January 2021; on January 26 a Winnebago County jury acquitted Martinez-Mendez, finding his use of deadly force justified as self-defense.

Does anyone have information about Gladney’s movements in that building that night or witnessed the hallway encounter?