Elijah Covington was 19 when he and 20-year-old Zyitae Britt were found dead from gunshot wounds inside a vehicle on February 12, 2021, in the Brookside community of Newark, Delaware. Officers responded about 6:15 a.m. to a report of a suspicious vehicle on the unit block of Carlisle Road; one account noted the car was a red sedan without snow while surrounding cars still showed recent storm accumulation. The initial suspicious-vehicle call quickly became a homicide investigation handled by the New Castle County Division of Police Criminal Investigations Unit.

Police publicly described the deaths as a violent, unresolved crime and asked the public for information and any video that could show what happened before the men were found; Detective Kevin Mackie and Crime Stoppers were listed as contacts. As of the department’s February 2024 unsolved homicide review the case remained an active cold case with no arrests or publicly identified suspects. If anyone has information about Elijah Covington or the events on Carlisle Road that morning, please contact Sgt. Mackie or Crime Stoppers.