On the evening of September 25, 2009, 40-year-old Robert Watkins of Seaford, Delaware, went to Magnolia with a friend to meet someone they believed was selling a dog. They waited in their car in the London Village neighborhood when 21-year-old Jermaine M. Zachary of Dover entered the vehicle’s back seat and another, unidentified man approached armed with a handgun and demanded money. As Watkins tried to drive away, the armed man fired, fatally striking Watkins in the chest.

The case saw little public movement for three years until October 2012, when the Delaware State Police reopened the investigation. Zachary was arrested after reporting to his probation officer and charged with second-degree murder and attempted robbery; investigators described him as present in the back seat during the shooting. The identity of the person who fired the fatal shot has not been publicly released and no additional arrests were announced.

If anyone in London Village or Magnolia remembers that night or has information about the unidentified shooter, please come forward.