Andrew Xavier Burgos, a 27-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the night of November 11, 2019, in Wilmington, Delaware. Although he had been born in Wilmington, Burgos was living in New Castle at the time of his death. Shortly after 10:00 p.m., Wilmington police officers were dispatched to the 1300 block of Chestnut Street in the city's Hedgeville neighborhood after receiving a report of gunfire and an injured person.
When officers reached the block, they found Burgos suffering from
a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel attempted to help him, but his injuries proved fatal. The shooting was treated as a homicide, and police publicly identified Burgos as the victim two days later. The available reports did not describe what Burgos had been doing immediately before the gunfire, whether he had been approached by another person, or whether witnesses saw the shooter flee the area.
Burgos had grown up in the Wilmington area and also attended school in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He later worked as a skilled laborer with Local 199, following a working path he shared with his mother. His death abruptly ended the life of a young worker whose family remembered him by his full name, Andrew Xavier Burgos, and whose loss left relatives and friends facing unanswered questions about why he was targeted.
Investigators did not publicly announce a motive for the killing, and the limited information released after the shooting provided no description of a gunman or getaway vehicle. No publicly available reports identify a named suspect, arrest, criminal charge, trial, or conviction connected to Burgos's death. The absence of a publicly reported arrest indicates that the homicide remained unresolved in the information available online, with responsibility for the shooting never publicly established.
