On the afternoon after Christmas in 2020, Ryjee Pinkney, a 22-year-old Black / African American male, was shot in Wilmington, Delaware. Police said the shooting happened at about 2:38 p.m. on Saturday, December 26, in the area of 35th and Locust Streets, in the city’s Eastlawn section. Officers found Pinkney suffering from gunshot wounds, and the scene quickly became another place in Wilmington marked by sudden violence during a year already strained by shootings.
Pinkney was taken
from the scene to a hospital, but he did not survive his injuries. His death was later recorded in public gun-violence databases as a fatal shooting in Wilmington on December 26, 2020. Online memorial information also identifies him as having been lost to gun violence that day, and police publicly identified him as the person killed shortly after the shooting.
The available online reporting gives only a narrow view of what happened before the gunfire. It does not describe a motive, a confrontation, or the events that led someone to shoot Pinkney near 35th and Locust. The accounts focus on the discovery of Pinkney wounded, the emergency response, and the confirmation that he died after being transported for medical care. No publicly available online source located in this search identified a suspect by name in his killing.
No arrest tied specifically to Ryjee Pinkney’s homicide was found in the available online sources reviewed. Public reports about later Wilmington gang-related indictments in 2021 listed arrests and murder charges connected to several other victims, but Pinkney’s name was not among the homicide victims named in those charges. Based on the online information available, there is no confirmed public record of a suspect, arrest, trial, or conviction in Pinkney’s case.
