Do you know who murdered 28 year old Allen Whitt in 2014?
Allen Whitt, a 28-year-old White male, was killed on New Year's Day in Wilmington, Delaware, in what became the city's first reported homicide of 2014. The shooting unfolded shortly after 8:00 p.m. on January 1, when police were called to West 3rd Street for a report of gunfire. Officers found Whitt inside a vehicle after he had been shot multiple times.
The early accounts of the case indicate that Whitt was from Port Deposit, Maryland. Police believed he had been shot in the 1400 block of West 3rd Street while sitting inside his 1995 Ford Contour. After the gunfire, he apparently managed to drive a short distance before the vehicle came to a stop farther down West 3rd Street. Officers located him in the car, and he was taken to Christiana Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
At the time of the killing, investigators had not publicly identified a suspect or a motive. The circumstances left the case with few public answers: Whitt was seated in his car when someone opened fire, and whatever led up to the shooting was not explained in the available reports. Police described the investigation as active and asked for help from anyone who might have seen something or knew who was responsible.
In later years, the case remained listed by the Wilmington Police Department's Cold Case Unit among unsolved murders. That listing described Whitt as being found in the 1400 block of West 3rd Street and stated that he had been fatally shot while sitting in his Ford Contour. The continued cold case listing suggests that investigators had not publicly closed the case with an arrest or conviction.
Available online sources did not identify any arrests, named suspects, charges, trials, pleas, or convictions connected to Whitt's murder. The public record of the case remains centered on the shooting itself, the vehicle on West 3rd Street, and the unanswered question of who killed him and why.
