Quinnell DaRonn Q-Ball Hayes was 20 when he was shot and later died on June 27, 2005, in Wilmington, Delaware. The shooting occurred around midnight in the 200 block of West 31st Street; police found Hayes with gunshot wounds and he later succumbed to his injuries. Public cold case listings give the Wilmington Police case number as 30-05-59899.

Family remembered Hayes as the son of Sharon Calhoun and Rev. Ronald Hayes and as a brother in a large family that included Steffoné Miller, Ronald Anderson, Ronita Davis, Etowja Anderson, Charita Lewis, Kenia Lewis, and the late Dai-Shawn Calhoun.

The case has remained open; the Wilmington Police Department’s Cold Case Unit and Delaware Crime Stoppers have sought the public’s help. If anyone has information about what happened on West 31st Street that night, please come forward.