EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the number of fatal shootings in Wilmington this year and at the same time last year.
A 27-year-old man died Tuesday night after being shot in Wilmington’s Southbridge neighborhood, police said.
Officers were called to the 300 block of S. Heald St. around 9 p.m. after receiving reports of the shooting. There, they found the man badly injured.
Paramedics took the man to the hospital, where he died.
Police have not yet released the man’s name.
So far this year, five people have been killed in Wilmington and 13 across the state, according to Delaware Online/The News Journal’s shooting database. At this same time last year, 11 had been killed statewide.
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