Delaware State Police are continuing to look for a suspect in a shooting in Wilmington that left a trooper with wound to the arm.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at approximately 3:58 p.m. as the Trooper responded to the area of East 24th Street and North Market Street, Wilmington at the request of the Wilmington Police Department to assist in the investigation of a suspicious vehicle parked on East 24th Street. The vehicle appeared to contain merchandise taken from outside the city.
As the trooper interviewed a female in connection with the suspicious vehicle, gunshots were fired from an unknown location in the direction of the trooper and Wilmington Police officers, striking the trooper in the right arm.
Wilmington were able to shield the wounded Trooper and offer first aid until paramedics and the ambulance arrived. The trooper was transported by ambulance to the Christiana Hospital Trauma Center where he was later treated and released.
Troopers assisted by the Wilmington Police Department, New Castle County Police Department, and several municipal agencies converged in the area and searched the area with detectives conducting interviews.
The trooper is a 44-year-old man who has served with the Delaware State Police for 17 years. He is assigned to the Delaware State Police Troop 1 Retail Theft Unit. In keeping with State Police policy, his name was not released.
Anyone with information on this incident, they is asked to contact Detective Millard Greer at 302-741-2728,
