Quentin Naquan “Que” Rutherford, a 22-year-old Black male from Middletown, Delaware, died on Sunday, December 13, 2020, after a shooting in Middletown. Online memorial and obituary information identifies him as a Middletown resident who was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 8, 1998, and was the son of Carey D. Rutherford and Lorene M. Cochran.
Away from the scene of violence that ended his life, he was described through family-facing sources as a young man who had been making his living as an apprentice electrician for Brothers Electric in Clayton.
The shooting happened in the early-morning hours in Middletown, with available online reports and indexed news summaries placing the incident near East Lake Street and Jefferson Street. Rutherford was reported as having been lost to gun violence that day, and local news references tied his death to a fatal shooting in Middletown amid a violent stretch in Delaware that included multiple shootings over several days.
The publicly available online information located for this synopsis does not identify a named suspect in Rutherford's killing. It also does not show a confirmed arrest, filed charges, trial, plea, or conviction connected to his death. Available source listings describe the case as a fatal shooting and reference police and news coverage seeking information, but no accessible public source located provided the name of a person accused of killing him.
In the years after his death, Rutherford's case remained publicly remembered through memorial pages and local references rather than through visible court updates. What can be told from the available online record is the story of a young Middletown man whose life was cut short before dawn on December 13, 2020, and whose killing, based on the public information located, has no publicly confirmed suspect or arrest tied to it.
