How drugs and gangs drove Dover's record year of gun violence
Isabel Hughes and Emily Lytle, Delaware News Journal Published 12:07 am UTC Jan. 10, 2021 Shuffling over empty blue heroin baggies and broken beer bottles, a young woman clutched a small can of beans close to her chest as she headed toward a decrepit yellow house on South New Street in Dover, its paint peeling and dirtied. Pausing by the home, she placed the beans on its porch railing, ignoring the “Private Property” sign posted in the downstairs front window. The colorful tampon applicators at her feet, used to snort cocaine, didn’t faze her — she eyed only the beans, perhaps her...