30-year-old woman found shot, dead in dover farm field

30-year-old woman found shot, dead in Dover farm field

August 22, 2021

Dover- Delaware State Police are conducting a homicide investigation that occurred Saturday morning in Dover. On Saturday, August 21, 2021, at approximately 8:57 a.m., the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit responded to the 2000 block of Dyke Branch Road, Dover, for a deceased subject located in a field. The victim, a 30-year-old female, was found in a cornfield with apparent gunshot wounds to the upper body. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was taken to the Division of Forensic Science for an autopsy to determine cause and manner of death.

Charlie Dwyer

Charlie Dwyer

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