What to Know
- Delaware State Police arrested a woman who they say jumped out of a crashed car near the Target at the Christiana Mall in Newark Monday afternoon.
- The driver of the car had been shot and killed.
- Shaidiah McNeair of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is charged with manslaughter.
A day after a driver crashed after being shot outside the Christiana Mall in Newark, Delaware, a Philadelphia woman is accused in the killing.
The shooting occurred Monday afternoon just after 4 p.m. along Christiana Mall Road, in Newark, Delaware State Police said Tuesday.
Troopers responded to find 27-year-old Alexis Woods in the driver’s seat of a black Ford Fusion that crashed head-on into a metal guardrail in the area of the Target store, police said. Woods appeared to have been shot in the upper body. The Philadelphia resident later died at the hospital.
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Police said a passenger, Shaidiah McNeair, jumped out of the car just before police arrived. Troopers searched the area and eventually took the 24-year-old Philadelphia resident into custody without further incident.
"Troopers searched the area for possible evidence and located a white plastic bag along an embankment that contained a handgun," state police said in Tuesday's news release.
McNeair was charged with manslaughter and a weapons charge. She was arraigned and jailed on $250,000 bail. It was unclear if she had an attorney who could comment on her behalf.
