Jeremiah Redding, a 13-year-old Black male, was shot on the afternoon of April 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware, in a sudden act of gun violence that unfolded in the 100 block of Ashton Place. Wilmington police said officers were called to the area at about 5:08 p.m. and found Jeremiah suffering from a gunshot wound. He was rushed to the hospital, but the injuries were too severe.
Memorial records list his death as April 30, 2020, two days after the shooting.
Jeremiah was remembered by family as Jeremiah Qua'mir Redding, known to many as “JJ” and to close relatives as “KING.” He was born on May 14, 2006, in Newark, Delaware, and attended Bancroft Elementary and Bayard Middle School. His obituary described him as a child with an infectious smile who was loved by the people who knew him, leaving behind parents, siblings, grandparents, extended family, coaches, cousins, friends, and a community grieving the loss of a boy whose life had barely begun.
Investigators treated the case as a fatal shooting and recovered the firearm used in the incident during the initial investigation. The case was assigned to Detective Brandon Mosley of the Wilmington Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division. As the investigation developed, police identified a 15-year-old male as a suspect in Jeremiah's death.
On May 13, 2020, the 15-year-old suspect was taken into custody. Wilmington police announced the following day that he had been charged with second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a person prohibited, tampering with physical evidence, and providing a false statement to law enforcement. Because the suspect was a juvenile, his name was not publicly released in the police notice. He was arraigned in Justice of the Peace Court 11 and committed to the New Castle County Detention Center on $57,000 cash-only bail.
Police also arrested a 14-year-old male in connection with the investigation, though he was not charged with Jeremiah's murder. He was charged with providing a false statement to law enforcement, arraigned in Justice of the Peace Court 11, and released on $500 unsecured bail. Publicly available reports did not show a later trial outcome or conviction details, but the early case record shows that police made arrests within weeks of the shooting and that the central murder charge was filed against the 15-year-old suspect.
