Jonair Pollard, a 29-year-old Black man from Dover, Delaware, was shot in the afternoon of Saturday, May 25, 2024, near New Castle Avenue and East Water Street in the Capital Green area. A call about the shooting came in at about 4:22 p.m. Officers found Pollard with a gunshot wound to his upper body; he was taken to Bayhealth Kent Campus but was later pronounced dead.

Investigators treated the incident as a homicide. By May 26, 2024, police identified 59-year-old William Mills of Dover as the person responsible. The Dover Police Department’s Special Operations Response Team executed a search warrant at an East Wind Drive residence, and Mills was taken into custody without incident. He was charged with Murder First Degree, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony, and Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $250,000 cash bail. Reports did not provide a detailed motive or describe any relationship between Pollard and Mills.

Did anyone in the Capital Green area see or hear anything around 4:22 p.m. on May 25 that could help investigators?