Kenneth Allen Hamilton, 26, was killed in a daylight shooting on the morning of September 13, 2019, at the intersection of West Fifth and North Monroe streets in Wilmington’s West Center City neighborhood. Police were dispatched at about 10:34 a.m. and found Hamilton and his longtime friend Dwayne Britt lying wounded in the street; both were transported to a hospital but died shortly after the shooting. Britt was 24; reports described the two as friends for more than a decade.

Hamilton was born in Wilmington on March 21, 1993, and graduated from Christiana High School. Family remembered him as humorous and attention-loving, devoted to his daughter and close with siblings, nephews and a niece. He enjoyed music, photographs and playful moments, and called himself the Neighborhood Hero.

Initial reporting did not explain what led to the shooting, whether the men were targeted, or how many shooters were involved. Police asked witnesses to contact Detective William Ball, and no arrest or publicly identified suspect had been announced in connection with the killings. If anyone knew Kenny or has information about that morning, please share what is known with investigators.