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The Dover Police department is seeking information on a shooting on Slaughter Street last night that damaged a home.

Wednesday's fatal shooting is Dover's second homicide of the year.

Of the 32 people shot in Dover last year, nearly a third — 10 — were injured in the four-block area surrounding South New and West Reed streets. Only one other hot spot in the city, Simon Circle west of downtown, saw multiple shootings, with three injured. Dover also saw its deadliest year on record last year, with nine killed, eight by gunfire. That was a 300% increase over 2019, which saw two people fatally shot. The city’s homicide rate in 2020 was about nine times the national average for cities with populations 25,000 to 49,999. So far this year, 12 people have been shot in...

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...