Charles D. “Boop” White, a 30-year-old Black/African American man from Wilmington, Delaware, was killed on the morning of June 7, 2016, in a shooting in the city's Riverside area. At about 8:30 a.m., Wilmington police were called to the first block, or unit block, of Jensen Drive after gunfire was reported. Officers arrived outside a residence and found White suffering from a gunshot wound.
Emergency personnel treated him at the scene before he was transported to Christiana Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police publicly identified him the following day as Charles White of Wilmington.
The killing occurred in daylight in a residential section of Wilmington. Contemporary reporting provided few details about what immediately preceded the shooting, and police did not publicly identify a gunman or announce a motive in the days after White's death. Investigators treated the case as a homicide and continued gathering information. Wilmington police directed anyone with knowledge of the shooting to contact homicide Detective Randall Nowell or the department's Homicide Hotline. Authorities also offered the possibility of a reward of as much as $10,000 for information that led to an arrest and conviction, while Delaware Crime Stoppers accepted anonymous tips.
White was also known as Charles D. “Boop” White. His obituary said he left behind his wife, Ashley Martin-White, and his children, Leionni and Isa White, along with other relatives. His mother, Valerie “Val” White, died one week after him, on June 14, 2016, and their family arranged a joint celebration of life on June 17 at Mother AUFCMP Church in Wilmington, followed by burial at Silverbrook Cemetery.
For years, publicly accessible reporting about White's homicide continued to describe the investigation without naming anyone charged in his death. That changed nearly a decade later. In March 2026, reporting disclosed that four men had been indicted in connection with the 2016 killing. The development was significant because it represented one of the first public acknowledgments that criminal charges had been brought in White's case after years in which the shooting had remained publicly unresolved.
The 2026 reporting described the defendants as four men charged over the fatal East Side shooting and indicated that they had been reindicted, suggesting that prosecutors had previously pursued charges through the grand-jury process before obtaining a new indictment. The publicly searchable material located for this synopsis did not reliably provide the four defendants' names, the complete individual charge lists, or sufficiently detailed court histories to state those facts without risking misidentification. Likewise, the available reporting did not establish that any of the four had yet been convicted of killing White or provide a final trial or sentencing outcome. As of the most recent online reporting located, the important change in the case was that White's death was no longer merely the subject of an open homicide investigation: four defendants had been formally indicted in connection with the shooting, with the criminal cases moving into the court system nearly ten years after he was killed.
