Keshall KeKe Alisa Anderson was a 19-year-old mother from Wilmington who was killed just after midnight on September 18, 2016. She was walking in the 200 block of West 20th Street when gunfire from a passing vehicle struck her in the back; she was taken to Christiana Hospital and pronounced dead. A male companion walking nearby was also shot in the leg and buttocks but survived.

Investigators described the incident as a drive-by shooting and said Anderson did not appear to be the intended target. Police later developed two 16-year-old Wilmington residents, Abdullah Brown and Deonta Carney, as suspects, obtaining arrest warrants and indictments in December 2016. Their first joint trial in April 2018 ended in a mistrial; in January 2019 both accepted plea agreements to manslaughter and related firearm offenses, establishing criminal responsibility for the gunfire that killed Anderson.

The handgun used was traced to a July 28, 2016 purchase near Christiana Mall; Anderson’s family alleged a straw purchase and pursued civil claims against the retailer, which were dismissed and upheld on appeal. Her death was later cited in efforts to tighten Delaware’s straw-purchase laws and the Keshall KeKe Anderson Safe Firearm Sales Act was named in her memory.

If anyone knew Keshall, saw activity around West 20th Street that night, or has information about the shooting, please share what is known.