Raekwon Brickhouse, a 26-year-old Black/African American male from Wilmington, Delaware, was killed in the first hour of June 1, 2024, after gunfire erupted near East 3rd Street and North Lombard Street in Wilmington. Police were called to the area at about 12:58 a.m., where responding officers found him suffering from gunshot wounds. He was still alive when officers reached him, and he was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
The effort to save him did not succeed.
Brickhouse later died from his injuries, and Wilmington authorities identified him as the person fatally wounded in the shooting. Online memorial information also records that he was lost to gun violence on June 1, 2024, in Wilmington, and lists news coverage from WDEL, The News Journal, and the Gun Violence Archive as sources connected to the case.
The shooting was described by local reporting as one of several violent and fatal incidents that marked the first week of June 2024 in Delaware. In that broader stretch of violence, Brickhouse’s death was noted as the first event, beginning just after midnight on June 1 at East 3rd Street and North Lombard Street. His killing stood out as part of a grim series of shootings and other deaths across the state in the days that followed.
Authorities did not publicly name a suspect in the available reporting reviewed. The case was described as an active and ongoing investigation, and police asked the public for help. Anyone with information was directed to contact Detective Derek Haines of the Wilmington Police Department at 576-3656, or to submit information anonymously through Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or through its website.
No publicly available online source reviewed reported an arrest, charges, trial, conviction, or identified suspect tied to Brickhouse’s killing. Based on the available public reporting, the case remained under investigation after his death, with police relying on tips from witnesses or others who might know what happened in the area that night.
