Prospective student shot by stray bullet while attending HBCU

A prospective student was shot and killed by a stray bullet at Delaware State University

Camay Mitchell De Silva18, was fatally shot April 21 while staying with a friend who was attending Delaware State University, per PEOPLE. According to a GoFundMe page set up by De Silva’s family, the teenager, who previously attended Morgan State University, is considering enrolling at Delaware State to study cybersecurity.

On April 21, shots were fired around 1:40 a.m. Officers found De Silva near the Warren Franklin Residence Hall in Deleware State with a gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries.

“As we have previously released, Miss De Silva was not involved in this altercation and we do not believe she was the intended target of the shots that came from the Breezeway area,” said the chief of the Dover Police Department Thomas Johnson Jr. said in a statement.

Dover police announced the arrests on Monday (May 6). Destry Jones20, and Damien Hinson, 28, on murder charges in connection with De Silva’s fatal shooting. Jones and Hinson are also charged with attempted murder of two other people in connection with the shooting.

None of the suspects were enrolled in the state of Delaware, according to reports.

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