Jahlil Patton, a 26-year-old Black man, was killed on the final night of 2019 in the Bear-area of New Castle County, Delaware. A call came in just before midnight on December 31, 2019, originally reported as a traffic crash near Taylor Drive and Emerson Place, close to the Village of Canterbury Apartments. Officers found Patton lying outside a vehicle with a gunshot wound to his upper torso; he received lifesaving efforts, was taken to a hospital, and later died.

Investigators say the shooting likely occurred inside the vehicle and that Patton managed to drive to Taylor Drive and Emerson Place after being wounded before the vehicle stopped and he collapsed. The New Castle County Division of Police Criminal Investigations Unit and later the Cold Case Squad reviewed the matter as the 2019 murder of Jahlil Patton. No arrest, suspect name, charge, or conviction has been reported, and police have continued to ask the public for information.

Did anyone in the Beech Hill or Village of Canterbury Apartments area see anything on the night of December 31, 2019?