Antoine Perkins, a 36-year-old Black man from Wilmington, was fatally shot on December 21, 2015. At about 4:25 to 4:30 p.m. police were called to East 23rd Street after a shooting; officers found Perkins gravely wounded from a gunshot to the head. New Castle County paramedics treated him at the scene and he was taken to Christiana Hospital, where he later died.

Perkins was the city’s 25th shooting fatality of 2015, a year that saw 126 shootings in Wilmington. Early public reports said little about what happened immediately before the gunfire, whether there were witnesses, or any motive. A later account reported he was on his way to his best friend’s house and that a woman who knew him had spoken with him about ten minutes before he was killed. Authorities did not publicly identify a suspect in the initial reports, and available coverage does not link any arrest, charge, or conviction to this killing.

Who knew Antoine or saw activity on East 23rd Street that afternoon?