Darnasia Green, a 20-year-old Black / African American female from Wilmington, Delaware, was killed after returning home from work on the night of Sunday, August 7, 2022. Family members said she had come home around 9:30 p.m. and was walking to a relative’s house to return a tablet when gunfire broke out near the corner of 25th and Tatnall streets.
The shooting happened close to her home and near a neighborhood playground, turning what should have been an ordinary walk into the final moments of her life.
Darnasia was known to loved ones as “Nae Nae,” and the people who gathered after her death described her as ambitious, hardworking, and goal-driven. Her mother, Amira, said Darnasia had no malice in her heart and could not understand why anyone would take her child’s life. Loved ones remembered her as someone who liked working, had plans for herself, and was still at the beginning of adulthood when she was shot. In the days after the killing, family, friends, and community members held a peace march in her honor, grieving not only the loss of Darnasia but also the suddenness and senselessness of the violence.
Online memorial and obituary sources list her as Darnasia A. Green, born July 30, 2002, and passing in Wilmington in early August 2022. Gun violence memorial records identify her death as a fatal shooting in Wilmington on August 7, 2022, while obituary listings give August 8, 2022, as the date associated with her passing. News reporting about the incident places the shooting on Sunday night, August 7, after she returned home from work.
Reporting available after the shooting stated that no arrests had been made in Darnasia Green’s killing. The same reporting identified the location as 25th and Tatnall streets but did not name a suspect, describe a suspect, or provide a clear motive. No publicly available online source located for this synopsis provided details of a later arrest, charges, trial, plea, or conviction connected to her death. As a result, based on the available online reporting, her case appears to have remained unresolved publicly, with no named suspect or confirmed prosecution reported in the sources reviewed.
