Demier Chambers, a 28-year-old male from Newark, Delaware, was shot on the night of March 16, 2021, in Wilmington. Police were called at about 8:34 p.m. to the 700 block of North Washington Street, in the Quaker Hill area, after reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Chambers suffering from gunshot wounds. He was still alive when he was taken from the scene to a hospital, but the injuries were too severe, and he died there.
The public details released after the shooting
describe a sudden act of violence on a city block that became the center of a homicide investigation. Chambers was later identified not only in police and news reports, but also in memorial and obituary information as Demier Edward Chambers. His obituary said he was born on August 20, 1992, in Newark, Delaware, and remembered him as a husband, father, son, grandson, brother, and construction laborer. The shooting ended his life at 28, leaving behind family members and loved ones mourning a man whose death quickly became part of Wilmington’s homicide record for that year.
The Wilmington Police Department assigned the case to Detective Brianna Rodrigues of the Criminal Investigations Division. Investigators worked the case for several weeks after the shooting and eventually identified 21-year-old Treasure Parsons as a suspect. Police obtained a search warrant, and on April 15, 2021, with assistance from the Crisis Management Tactical Team, Parsons was taken into custody without incident.
After his arrest, Treasure Parsons was charged with first-degree murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, and first-degree conspiracy. He was arraigned in Justice of the Peace Court 20 and committed to the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution on $2,005,000 cash-only bail. Publicly available reports identify Parsons as the arrested suspect in Chambers’ killing, but the available online sources reviewed did not provide a clear later outcome such as a trial result, plea, conviction, dismissal, or sentencing.
