Jesse Wayne Stanford Jr, a 30-year-old Black man from Cambridge, Maryland, was fatally shot during a violent home invasion at a mobile home in the Kentwood Mobile Home Park near Dover. The shooting occurred on the evening of January 5, 2019; Delaware State Police troopers found Stanford with a gunshot wound to his upper torso at about 5:57 p.m. He struggled with two intruders who had entered the residence during an apparent robbery, and although two other adults were in the home they were not physically injured. Stanford was taken to a hospital in serious condition and died of his wounds on January 7, 2019.

Investigators believed the residence had been deliberately targeted but did not publicly explain how the intruders came to that address or whether Stanford knew them. In February 2020 authorities arrested Cahlil N. Simmons and Jaquell A. McDonald on charges including first-degree murder and related firearm and conspiracy counts.

If anyone was at Kentwood Mobile Home Park that evening or has information about who targeted that residence, please come forward.