Marcos Plasencia, a 31-year-old Black/African American male, was killed on the night of December 31, 2023, after what first looked like a traffic accident in Elsmere, Delaware, turned into a homicide investigation. Around 10:57 p.m., Elsmere police were called to the area of the 400 block of New Road for a report of a single-vehicle crash. When officers arrived, they found Plasencia inside the vehicle, but the scene quickly shifted away from a routine crash response when police discovered he had
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