Brandon Ryans, a 29-year-old African American man from Wilmington, Delaware, was shot and killed on July 16, 2015, at the corner of South Dupont Street and Lancaster Avenue. Wilmington Police Detective Randall Nowell led the investigation, which relied on nearby surveillance footage and cooperating witnesses to identify a suspect.

Those investigative leads pointed to Lamere Wilmer-Williamson as the gunman. Wilmer-Williamson later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January 2017. Prosecutors Barzilai Axelrod and Periann Doko secured a prison sentence imposed by a Superior Court judge; on March 17, 2017, the Delaware Department of Justice announced the sentence as 20 years in prison, plus six months of home confinement or work release and two years of probation. The announcement confirmed responsibility for the fatal shooting but did not describe a motive or the events immediately before the gunfire.

Did anyone in the Wilmington area witness the shooting or have information about what led up to it?