Gunnar T. G. Holum was an 18-year-old from Dodgeville, Wisconsin, who had just completed high school and earned a welding certificate from Southwest Wisconsin Technical College on December 13, 2019. Described by those who knew him as quiet and gentle, he enjoyed video games, swimming with friends, and the outdoors.Gunnar was in Madison’s Near West Side on December 14, 2019.

On the 1000 block of Spruce Street he suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital, where he died shortly after arrival. An autopsy the next day attributed his death to firearm related trauma.Madison neighborhood resource officers investigated and arrested 20-year-old Marcus Hamilton in connection with Gunnar’s death; a second man, Brandon Hernandez, was arrested on a charge of harboring and aiding a felon as an alleged getaway driver. Hamilton was later charged with first-degree reckless homicide and bound over for trial.

Gunnar’s family established the Gunnar Thomas Gatlin-Holum Memorial Scholarship for Dodgeville High School graduates.Anyone who knew Gunnar or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.