Keith Barron Mason, a 24-year-old Black man from Wilmington, Delaware, was fatally shot around 6:30 p.m. on January 12, 2015, in the 200 block of West 23rd Street. Police found Mason struck by multiple gunshots; authorities described the incident as Wilmington’s first homicide of the year but released few details about how the shooting began or whether it was targeted.

The death was followed days later by another nearby homicide, prompting a street meeting on January 17 hosted by the Wilmington Peacekeepers to support affected families and underscore community concerns about gun violence.

Mason left three children — Taylor Griffin, Ja’haad White and Eh’san Mason — along with parents Dawn Mason and Keith Morris, stepparents, siblings and an extended family. He was remembered at a Celebration of Life on January 21, 2015, at New Destiny Fellowship Church and was buried at Silverbrook Cemetery.

If anyone has information about what happened on West 23rd Street on January 12, 2015, please come forward.