Isabel Hughes

1 week ago | delawareonline.com | Isabel Hughes

Delaware State Police has identified the 37-year-old motorcyclist killed on May 1 after a pickup truck drove into his lane, causing the two vehicles to crash near Frederica. Nirangan Riker was driving south on Old Beach Road, near Barratts Chapel Road, just before 5:40 a.m., police said. As he continued through the intersection, for which he did not have a stop sign, the truck pulled out in front of him, police said. The truck had been stopped at a stop sign, waiting to turn onto Old Beach Road.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Isabel Hughes

Delaware State Police has provided additional details about the police shooting near Harbeson on May 1 that left one man dead. The incident unfolded just before 4 p.m. when troopers responded to Route 9 (Lewes-Georgetown Highway) near Harbeson Road after receiving "several" 911 calls about a "possible impaired driver," police said. The callers told dispatchers that a red Ford F-150 was driving slowly, swerving into opposite lanes and driving on the shoulder.

1 week ago | delawareonline.com | Isabel Hughes

Two Delaware State Police troopers shot and killed a person near Harbeson after the person "charged toward" the troopers with a knife on the afternoon of May 1, the agency wrote on social media. State police first posted about the incident on X a little after 4:45 p.m. The message said there was a "large police presence" in the 28000 block of West Springside Drive. At 6:16 p.m., the agency updated the post with additional details.

1 week ago | delawareonline.com | Esteban Parra |Isabel Hughes |Brittany Horn

A 24-year-old University of Delaware graduate student killed after a fleeing U-Haul van sped down Newark's Main Street, plowing into a handful of people and cars, has been identified by city police as Marina Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos, of Northeast, Maryland, was pronounced dead at the scene after police said she was hit on April 29 by a stolen van that was driven by Gordon Turner. The 22-year-old New Castle man is facing several crimes, including two counts of second-degree attempted murder.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Isabel Hughes

A 22-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder, assault and several other charges after police say he drove a U-Haul down Newark's Main Street, killing a University of Delaware student and injuring eight other people on April 29. Gordon Turner, of New Castle, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder: death caused during the commission of a felony and "reckless conduct showing indifference to human life," police said in an April 30 news release.