2/26/25 Oshkosh Police Officer Cleared in Fatal Shooting
26 February 2025 News
Winnebago County Assistant District Attorney Tracy Paider has decided no criminal charges will brought against the Oshkosh Police Officer who shot and killed Delveon Fairman on December 10th in Oshkosh. Paider concludes in her decision that the officer’s use of deadly force was justified. Police were called to the 400 block of West 10th Avenue for a stabbing. When they arrived, they learned a woman who had escaped a residence had been stabbed and another woman who had been stabbed in the head and arm had barricaded herself in a bathroom inside the residence. According to information in the decision Fairman had gotten high on psilocybin mushrooms and wanted to kill people in the residence because he loved them, but they didn’t love him. He thought they were evil. When police entered the residence Fairman was armed with a knife similar to a clever and rushed up basement stairs toward the first officer in. He kept advancing despite orders to “stay down with the knife” and “drop the knife.” The officer fired two shots hitting Fairman in the chest. Fairman died later at a hospital. The state’s Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation led the investigation. The officer involved was placed on administrative leave during the investigation.
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