Shortly after midnight on Sunday, June 28, 2026, gunfire erupted in the rear alley of the 400 block of Kent Avenue in the Capital Green neighborhood of Dover, Delaware. Officers responding to calls found 18-year-old Christopher Waters slumped in the passenger seat of a vehicle with a gunshot wound to his upper body. First responders rendered aid and he was taken to a nearby hospital.

The alley was later found to contain more than 30 shell casings. A few days after the shooting, investigators located a burned black Honda Accord in a field along Andrews Lake Road in the Felton area that is believed to be connected to the incident. Christopher Waters died of his wounds in the early hours of Thursday, July 2, 2026, and the investigation was reclassified as a homicide.

No arrests or public identifications of suspects have been announced and the Dover Police Department’s investigation is ongoing. If anyone has information about the shooting, the vehicle, or movements in the Kent Avenue alley that night, please share what is known.