Syncere Friends, 25, of Dover, Delaware, was shot in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 14, 2024, on the 100 block of West Loockerman Street near Irish Mike’s. Police say the shooting occurred about 1:26 a.m.; officers found Friends with a gunshot wound to the chest and a 30-year-old woman from Magnolia with a lower-body gunshot injury. Both were taken to Bayhealth Kent Campus, and Friends died at the hospital.

Court-related reporting described Friends as having been shot multiple times in the chest and once in the right leg; the woman was reportedly struck in the upper right thigh and suffered a fractured femur. Detectives identified 23-year-old Sadique Ingram of Dover as the person responsible after reviewing surveillance footage that allegedly shows a man in a white T-shirt firing shots, then running to a nearby lot and entering a silver sedan. Ingram was arrested that Sunday during a traffic stop in Milford and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony; police reported him as presumed innocent.

Reporting linked Friends’ killing to later violence in Dover that same day, with a separate fatal shooting of a 15-year-old believed to be retaliatory. Does anyone have information about Friends, the shooting, or the movements around Irish Mike’s that morning?