Stephanie Gill was a sweetheart.
Though she largely kept to herself, she would always lend a helping hand, no matter what it was you asked for, neighbors said.
Deanna Dee Dominick-Dalton was also generous. She and Gill were good friends, and she d often spend time at Gill s Monrovia Avenue apartment. When Gill needed to run an errand, Dominick-Dalton would watch her children with no questions asked, a family member said.
In part, the women s kindness is what makes it so difficult for friends and family to process that they were fatally shot Tuesday morning in Smyrna. Police released their names Thursday.
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Police say the man who shot and killed his wife Tuesday in the parking lot of Smyrna Middle School shot and killed another woman at a separate location and then shot himself after a car chase with police.
After crashing his car near Galena, Maryland, the man was airlifted to a Maryland hospital where he died, Delaware State Police said Wednesday in a press release.
Neighbors said the three all had lived in the same neighborhood and that the woman killed at the school had previously said she believed her husband would kill both her and himself.
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About nine hours after a 38-year-old woman was shot dead in the parking lot of Smyrna Middle School Tuesday morning, the city police department and Delaware State Police were called to another crime scene.
Shortly before 7:30 p.m., Delaware State Police emailed a notice about increased police activity on Monrovia Avenue in Smyrna. Cpl. Jason Hatchell, a spokesman for the agency, said the departments are conducting a criminal investigation in the area.
Monrovia Avenue between East Commerce Street and Route 13 is closed, Hatchell said.
It s not known what police are investigating, but the notice comes following a violent day in the city.
Man who killed woman outside Smyrna Middle School shot and killed himself and another woman, police say Brandon Holveck and Isabel Hughes, Delaware News Journal
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Police say the man who shot and killed his wife Tuesday in the parking lot of Smyrna Middle School shot and killed another woman at a separate location and then shot himself after a car chase with police.
After crashing his car near Galena, Maryland, the man was airlifted to a Maryland hospital where he died, Delaware State Police said Wednesday in a press release.