Do you know who murdered Richard Benitez in 2002? Richard Benitez, a 25-year-old Black male from Wilmington, Delaware, was killed on October 29, 2002, in a shooting along the 1100 block of Lancaster Avenue. The known public accounts describe the violence in stark terms: Benitez was shot off Lancaster Avenue in Wilmington, and his death was later treated as one of the city’s unsolved murder cases. The limited details that have been made public leave the scene mostly quiet except for the essentials—gunfire, a wounded young man, and a case tha
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