Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 2:12pm
2 arrested for separate shootings in Wilm.
Updated Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 3:17pm
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| WDEL's Amy Cherry talks with AG Biden, Kevin Kelley. |
Two arrests have been made in separate shootings in Wilmington.
WDEL's Amy Cherry is in Hedgeville.
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17-year-old Daiquan Reams is charged with May 19th murder of Tamekia Kearney in a shooting that also injured two others in Kosciuszko Park.
Attorney General Beau Biden says Reams has a criminal past.
"Although Reams is a young man, this defendant is no stranger to the criminal justice system. He was arrested and jailed on May 29th for violating his probation for an earlier offense. He remains in incarcerated," says Biden.
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Police have also arrested Lee Turner for the June 15th shooting death of 15-year-old Naj'm Hickmond in a West 4th Street alley. A child was also hurt in that shooting.
"Turner's 12-year-old victim continues to recover, but his wounds like the wounds of this community from these senseless acts of violence will take much longer to heal," Biden says.
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Police credit the community for their help in catching these suspected criminals though they won't say specifically what tips or eyewitness accounts them to these men.
Police are mum on a motive for the murders as well, but Biden assures the community, these are not random acts of violence.
Wilmington Police Chief Mike Szczerba says they're working on leads to solve a string of other recent murders in Wilmington, but in response to critics, who say these arrests have taken too long, he says...
"In this business, we don't get a dress rehearsal. We have to do it right the first time, and that's what's being done in these cases, and we're following through with other cases that occurred in our city," says Szczerba.
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City Councilman Kevin Kelley is happy there's some closure provided in murders that rocked his district, but we can't stop here.
"Violence is the number one topic. People need to say something, see something, do something, and we must get the police out of their cars into the sidewalks, into the neighborhoods, interacting with people," says Kelley.
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