Danielle Hallmon, a 29-year-old Black / African American female, was killed in a burst of gunfire on the afternoon of February 4, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware. The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. in the area of East 23rd and Pine streets, with police reporting the scene in the 300 block of East 23rd Street. When officers arrived, they found three people who had been shot while inside a vehicle.
Hallmon was the person who died from the shooting.
Early reporting initially described one victim as deceased and two others as wounded, and Wilmington police later identified the woman killed as Danielle Hallmon. The two surviving victims, both men, were taken to the hospital for treatment after the gunfire. Public reports did not describe the exact sequence of events leading up to the shooting, but they made clear that the victims were in a car when they were struck.
The shooting left behind a quiet but devastating scene: a vehicle riddled by bullets, three people hit, and a Wilmington family left mourning Hallmon. Her obituary identified her full name as Danielle Patrice Nicole Hallmon and said she was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Loved ones remembered her as “Dani,” and memorial pages connected to her death describe her as a mother whose loss deeply affected her children and family.
Publicly available reports do not identify a suspect or suspects in Hallmon's killing. News coverage at the time said police were searching for a suspect, had not announced a motive, and had made no arrests. Later public summaries of the case also continued to describe it as unresolved, with no named defendant, no listed charges, and no reported trial or conviction connected to her death. The case was treated as an active homicide investigation, and authorities asked anyone with information to contact Wilmington police or Delaware Crime Stoppers.
