Man, 33, shot dead while sitting in a parked car near Dover

A 33-year-old man was fatally shot Thursday afternoon while sitting in a parked car in the Capitol Park community near Dover. 

The shooter remains at large. 

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A Dover-area man, who has not been identified, was sitting in the driver seat of a vehicle parked on Senator Avenue when an unknown male entered the backseat of the car about 3:50 p.m., Delaware State Police Master Cpl. Heather Pepper said.

After a conversation between the two, Pepper said the unknown male demanded the man’s property.

“At some point during the encounter, the victim was shot in the upper torso,” Pepper said. “The unknown male suspect then fled the vehicle in an unknown direction of travel.”