Police remain quiet on Marine’s shooting death in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, NC (Star News) — Twenty-three days after an active-duty Marine corporal was shot to death in downtown Wilmington, few details in the slaying have been released by the Wilmington Police Department.
The Star News reports Estrada was a CH-53 helicopter mechanic assigned to Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 based in Jacksonville. He joined the Marine Corps in July 2014.
“We have no further update on the shooting death of Cpl. Estrada at this time. We are continuing to investigate this case and the circumstances surrounding his death, thoroughly,” police spokeswoman Jennifer Dandron wrote in an email Tuesday morning.
A statement of probable cause for the search warrant at 273 N. Front St., reveals that 36-year-old Stephen Roger Hughes II, called 911 to report that he “shot and killed an intruder at his residence.” Hughes apparently lives in an apartment behind businesses there. Access to the apartment, the warrant indicates, is via a door that faces Water Street on the back of the building.
Police found Estrada lying dead “in a pool of blood with an apparent gunshot wound to the head just outside Hughes’ apartment door,” the affidavit states.
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