Jamere Black was a 22-year-old Black/African American male from Wilmington, Delaware, whose life ended after gunfire broke out on Halloween afternoon, October 31, 2024. The shooting happened at about 12:35 p.m. in the 1300 block of East 28th Street in Wilmington, in an incident that quickly drew police, medical responders, and investigators to a neighborhood scene marked off with police tape.
When Wilmington police arrived, they found four people suffering from gunshot wounds.
Jamere was taken to an area hospital, but he did not survive. Authorities later identified him as the person killed in the shooting. Three other men were also wounded: a 34-year-old man who was reported in critical condition, and two younger men, ages 21 and 20, who were reported in stable condition.
The public details released about the shooting remained limited. Police had not publicly explained what led up to the gunfire, whether the victims were targeted, or whether more than one shooter may have been involved. The available reporting described the case as an active homicide investigation, with officers collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses after the attack.
No arrests were publicly reported in the immediate aftermath of Jamere Black’s death, and police had not announced a named suspect or suspects in the available public reports. Investigators asked anyone with information to contact Detective Joseph Wicks at 302-576-3654, indicating that they were still seeking help from the public as they worked to determine who opened fire and why.
Outside the police account, memorial pages and obituary information described Jamere as someone known by loved ones as “Shottie” or “Shakur,” remembered as loving, loyal, and deeply connected to family and friends. Those remembrances gave a fuller sense of the person behind the case number: a young man mourned by people who described his kindness, energy, and devotion to the people around him.
As the case stood in the public record, Jamere’s killing remained tied to a broader multiple-victim shooting on East 28th Street, with one person dead, three others injured, and no publicly confirmed arrest, suspect identification, charge, trial, or conviction found in the available online reporting.
