Two suspects arrested in a fatal shooting on the Delaware State University campus are not students at the school, authorities said Monday.
Dover police said Destry Jones, 20, and Damien Hinson, 18, both of Dover, were arrested Thursday for the murder of Camay Mitchell De Silva of Wilmington.
De Silva, 18, was shot in the head on April 21 outside a residence hall at Delaware State University. Investigators do not believe she was the intended target of the shooting.
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Jones was arrested Thursday at an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Hinson was arrested that same day in the parking lot of a Dover shopping center. Jones is awaiting extradition to Delaware on charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Hinson, who faces the same charges, is being held in a Delaware prison with bail set at more than $3 million cash.
The main gate to the Delaware State University campus in Dover, Delaware, USA, on Friday, September 21, 2007. (Photo by Jay Premack/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Investigators said officers with the Dover Police Department, which has been assisting campus police with nighttime and weekend security patrols, heard gunshots around 1:40 a.m. on the day of the shooting. Around the same time, campus police received a report of shots fired during a fight near a dormitory.
Police later received a separate call about a woman who was on the floor outside a different bedroom and found De Silva fatally wounded. Investigators said De Silva was not involved in the altercation.
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Authorities said investigators learned that Jones and Hinson were part of a group involved in a fight with two other men that preceded the shooting. Jones and Hinson face attempted murder charges related to the other two men.
