Joshua Riley, a 35-year-old White man from Houston, Delaware, was shot and killed after his vehicle broke down on a rural road near Felton. In the early hours of February 27, 2023, troopers responded around 12:30 a.m. to a report of a person lying in a ditch at Hopkins Cemetery Road and Marshyhope Road and found Riley with a gunshot wound to his upper extremity. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead after arrival.

Investigators reconstructed that Riley had gone to a nearby residence to use a phone after his vehicle became disabled, then returned to the car. Sometime after he went back to the vehicle a confrontation occurred and he was shot. The Delaware State Police Homicide Unit described the investigation as active but did not identify the person Riley encountered and released no suspect description. Police asked anyone with information to contact Detective A. Bluto or submit a tip through Delaware Crime Stoppers.

If anyone was in the Hopkins Cemetery Road and Marshyhope Road area that night or saw Riley’s disabled vehicle, can you share what you remember?