Shareef Hamilton was 21 when he was shot late on September 23, 2020, after a night stop at the Dash In gas station in the 1000 block of Delaware Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware. Police arrived about 11:47 p.m. and found Hamilton with gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and died from his injuries. The shooting happened outside the store after Hamilton and Leland Stanley had been inside with two others. A dark-colored SUV drove through the parking lot beforehand. Hamilton and Stanley went outside and two people approached on foot and opened fire; Stanley was not struck. Witnesses included two people who had been panhandling and surveillance cameras captured the incident.

Investigators recovered six spent 9mm casings, a 9mm projectile, and a spent .380-caliber casing at the scene, and three 9mm projectiles were recovered from Hamilton’s body. Ballistics linked the 9mm evidence to a 9mm Smith & Wesson found in Maryland; the .380 weapon was not recovered. Prosecutors later tied the killing to NorthPak, a Wilmington-area gang, and charged multiple people. Elijah Coffield was convicted in March 2023 of first-degree murder in Hamilton’s death; additional charges were brought in January 2023 against J’Shawn Edwards and Markel Richards in connection with the shooting, and Edwards was later sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter, gang participation, conspiracy, and weapons-related charges.

Does anyone who was in that area the night of September 23, 2020, or who knew Hamilton, have information that could shed more light on what happened?