Late on the night of July 9, 2014, Wilmington police were called to the 100 block of East 22nd Street. They found Otis Saunders, a 27-year-old Black man, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed by ambulance to Christiana Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. The shooting marked another bleak milestone in a violent summer that year, drawing urgent appeals from investigators for witnesses to come forward.
In the days that followed, police descri
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