On October 21, 2015, 36-year-old Terry Dotson was fatally shot outside his girlfriend’s apartment in Milwaukee after a dispute that began earlier that day over gas money. Dotson, a Black/African American man, had been riding in a car with his girlfriend and an associate, Terrell Dawon Essex, when Essex allegedly produced a semiautomatic firearm and threatened him. The parties separated, but Dotson returned to the girlfriend’s apartment to retrieve a phone left in Essex’s vehicle.

Witnesses did not see the shooting itself, but their accounts of the earlier confrontation and of Essex having a gun pointed investigators toward Essex. Another person was wounded in the same incident. Bullet casings recovered months earlier from Essex’s car after an unrelated drive-by in May 2015 were later matched by the Wisconsin State Crime Lab to the bullets that killed Dotson. Essex was arrested and charged in connection with the killing.

Does anyone have additional information about the events outside the apartment that afternoon or about witnesses who came forward?