Daily News | Police officer in Delaware shoots two people, killing one
A New Castle County police officer shot two people, killing one, during a drug investigation Monday night near Wilmington, police said.
Police officers were in the area of Maryland Avenue and West Champlain Avenue around 7:40 p.m. when one officer fired a gun, fatally striking a male and wounding a female, the New Castle County Division of Police said in a statement posted on Facebook. Both individuals were transported to Christiana Hospital, where the male was pronounced dead and the female was being treated for a non-life-threatening injury. Neither person was identified.
The police said the incident is under investigation by the division’s Criminal Investigations Unit and the Delaware Department of Justice-Division of Civil Rights and Public Trust.The officer, who has also not been identified, has been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is being conducted, police said.
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