Man shot dead Tuesday in Wilmington's Price Run community. What we know about the violence
A 30-year-old man shot Tuesday afternoon near a Wilmington church has been identified by city police as Lamar Washington.
Washington was shot about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday while in the 2300 block of N. Pine St. in the city's Price Run neighborhood, Wilmington police said. Police provided no further details.
"This incident remains under investigation and further details will be released when possible," city police said in a press release issued Wednesday afternoon.
Officers dispatched to the scene found Washington, who was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
At least two evidence markers could be seen at East 23rd and North Pine streets, where investigators sifted for more evidence near the Bethel Pentecostal Church. Washington's clothing was on the pavement where first responders left it as they tried to save him.
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Washington is the 13th person to die in Wilmington by gunfire this year. Police have reported 86 people being shot this year in Delaware's largest city.
These numbers are down from 2021, which saw the most homicides by gunfire — 39 — in a single year. At this time last year, 115 people had been shot in Wilmington — 25 of them fatally.
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Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact Detective Derek Haines at (302) 576-3656.
Contact Esteban Parra at (302) 324-2299, eparra@delawareonline.com or Twitter @eparra3.
This article originally appeared on Delaware News Journal: Man killed by gunfire in Wilmington's Price Run community identified
