Rasheed Lamar White, a 41-year-old Black/African American male from Wilmington, Delaware, was shot on the evening of February 25, 2022, in the 1300 block of North Claymont Street. The shooting was reported at about 7:54 p.m., just before 8 p.m., when Wilmington police arrived and found White suffering from gunshot wounds. What had begun as another Friday night in the city quickly became a homicide investigation, with officers and emergency responders working to get him medical help.
White was transported to a nearby hospital, but he did not survive his injuries. Online obituary information says he was born on February 20, 1981, in Wilmington, the son of Trena White and the late Zachery Grayson, and that he had just turned 41 five days before his death. He was remembered by loved ones by the nicknames “Fatty” and “G.O.A.T.” and was described as someone who had attended William Penn and Concord High School, with a love and talent for sports that stood out among people who knew him.
Publicly available online reports identify the case as a fatal shooting investigated by the Wilmington Police Department. Those reports state that police found White wounded at the scene, that he later died at the hospital, and that detectives asked the public for information. Detective Steven Bender was listed as a contact for tips in the immediate aftermath of the killing.
No suspect was publicly named in the online reports reviewed, and the early reporting stated that no arrests had been made. No publicly available online source reviewed showed a later arrest, criminal charges, trial, plea, or conviction tied to White's killing. The available information leaves the case publicly described as an unresolved fatal shooting, with investigators depending on anyone who may have seen or heard something that night on North Claymont Street to come forward.
