Teiso I. Richardson, a 30-year-old Black man, was shot and killed at his Wilmington home on the morning of June 30, 2011. He answered a knock at his door around 8:15 to 8:20 a.m.; someone outside the doorway opened fire, striking him multiple times, including in the head and chest. His wife and young children were inside the house and witnessed the shooting. The shooter did not enter the residence and fled running west on 28th Street.

Family members described Richardson as a gentle giant and said the family was devastated. His father, Michael Richardson, expressed confusion and heartbreak; the slaying also reopened an earlier family wound, as Richardson’s brother DeShonne Moore had been shot and killed in 2005 only blocks away. No suspect name or arrest has been publicly reported, and the Wilmington police later treated the case as a cold case and asked the public for information.

If anyone has information about who approached that West 28th Street home that morning or saw someone running west on 28th Street, please come forward.