Lamont “Smiggen” Davis, a 46-year-old Black / African American male from Wilmington, Delaware, died after gunfire erupted on the night of February 16, 2020. The shooting happened in the 800 block of North Adams Street, where Wilmington police responded at about 10:02 p.m. and found Davis suffering from gunshot wounds. Emergency crews moved quickly to get him to a hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries.
The violence that night did not end with Davis.
A second victim, identified in reports as Wade Hammond, was also wounded in the same shooting. Hammond was initially listed in critical condition after arriving at the hospital, but later died from his injuries as well. What began as a late-night shooting call became a double-fatality investigation, leaving two families grieving and police asking the public for help.
In the immediate aftermath, Wilmington police treated the case as an active homicide investigation. Detective Matthew Bender was listed as the contact for tips, and authorities asked anyone with information to come forward. The available reports described the scene, the victims, and the fact that the investigation was continuing, but they did not publicly explain a motive or describe the circumstances that led up to the gunfire.
Online source listings tied to the companion case involving Wade Hammond indicate that a person was later charged or indicted in connection with at least one of the two deaths from the February 2020 Wilmington shooting. However, the accessible source text located for Davis's case did not provide enough confirmed detail to name a suspect, list the exact charges, or describe the outcome of any trial or conviction specifically for Davis's death. Based on the available online information, Davis's killing was part of the same North Adams Street double shooting, but the publicly accessible details about arrests and prosecution remain limited.
