Kamal Raheem Paddy, 35, a Black male from Dover, Delaware, was found dead inside a car on the shoulder near the intersection of Sharon Hill Road and Cahoon Branch Road on the morning of April 20, 2025. Troopers were called just after 7:28 a.m., where they discovered two occupants with apparent gunshot wounds and pronounced them dead at the scene. The location sat just outside the Dover city limits, a quiet stretch of roadway where the stillness of an Easter Sunday morning was broken by crime scene tape and the slow, methodical sweep of investigators.
Authorities later identified the second victim as 33-year-old Brittani Hollis of Dover. Delaware State Police said Hollis and Paddy were in a domestic relationship, a detail that immediately shaped the early focus of the case even as the wider circumstances remained murky. From the outset, detectives emphasized there was no ongoing threat to public safety, signaling that whatever happened inside that parked vehicle did not point to a random attack on the community.
As the week unfolded, investigators formally classified the case as a homicide investigation. News releases and local reports described the same sparse tableau: a vehicle pulled to the side of the road, two lives ended by gunfire, and few publicly shared answers about how events had spiraled to violence. The identification of the victims came on April 24, 2025, along with an appeal for tips to the Homicide Unit as detectives worked to reconstruct the final hours the couple spent together.
No arrests were announced in the days immediately following the discovery, and officials released no suspect descriptions. Coverage at the time reiterated investigators’ stance that there was no broader danger, even as the community waited for clarity on motive and responsibility. The investigation continued under the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit, which asked anyone with information to come forward.
