Clifton Thompson, a 31-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the evening of February 27, 2016, outside the Prides Court Apartments in the Ogletown/Newark area of Delaware. Thompson had arrived with his girlfriend, Cassie Brown, and their daughter to visit his mother, Jean Cameron. Confrontation arose after the daughter saw a hooded man near the bushes; Brown later recognized the man as Reginald Waters. A dispute that day over a refund for marijuana had escalated into the encounter at the apartment complex.

Witness Rapha Moore, also known as Six, arrived to try to defuse the situation and was speaking with Thompson when a hooded person approached and gunfire began. Thompson was struck multiple times, taken to Christiana Hospital, and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Moore initially told investigators Waters was the shooter; police gathered telephone, cell-site, witness and circumstantial evidence and arrested Waters on March 29, 2016. At a bench trial in May 2018 the judge found Waters guilty of manslaughter and several weapons offenses, concluding the evidence showed he caused Thompson’s death but not that he possessed the specific intent required for first-degree murder.

Anyone who knew Clifton Thompson or who has information about the events that night is asked to come forward.