David Walton Parcher, a 70-year-old White male, died on July 28, 2020, after he was shot inside a home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Milford, Delaware. The shooting was reported in the dark, early hours of the morning, around 3:40 a.m., when Milford Police officers were sent to the residence for a possible shooting. When they arrived, they found Parcher suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Emergency responders from the Carlisle Fire Company rushed him from the Pennsylvania Avenue
home to Bayhealth Sussex Campus. Despite that effort, Parcher did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital. His death was treated as a shooting investigation by the Milford Police Department's Criminal Division, and his body was turned over to the Delaware Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy.
Police publicly identified him the next day as David W. Parcher of Milford. Other obituary records identify him more fully as David Walton Parcher and list his date of death as July 28, 2020. Those records also note that he was born on March 24, 1950, placing his age at 70 when he died.
The public reports available on the case do not identify a suspect, describe a motive, or announce an arrest. Milford Police said the investigation was ongoing and asked anyone with information to contact the department's Criminal Division or Delaware Crime Stoppers. Based on the available online reports, no publicly documented charges, trial, or conviction could be confirmed in connection with Parcher's death.
