{"id":30319,"date":"2025-10-06T10:14:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30319"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:14:54","slug":"death-investigation-ongoing-in-wicomico-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/10\/06\/death-investigation-ongoing-in-wicomico-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Investigation Ongoing in Wicomico County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(SALISBURY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man that occurred early Saturday morning in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased is identified as Kem\u2019mon La\u2019Austin Walker, 27, of Eden, Maryland. Walker was transported to TidalHealth Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 1 a.m. on October 4, officers from the Salisbury Police Department responded to the 200 block of E. Main Street in Salisbury for reports of a fight in progress. Responding officers found the victim suffering from an apparent stab wound.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Police Homicide Unit was requested to respond and take the lead on the investigation.\u00a0 Homicide investigators and crime scene technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division processed the scene and collected evidence. Additional assistance is being provided by members of the Salisbury Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this case is asked to contact Maryland State Police at 443-298-9447.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SALISBURY, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man that occurred early Saturday morning in Salisbury. The deceased is identified as Kem\u2019mon La\u2019Austin Walker, 27, of Eden, Maryland. Walker was transported to TidalHealth Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. Shortly after 1 a.m. on October 4, officers from the Salisbury Police<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/10\/06\/death-investigation-ongoing-in-wicomico-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30320,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}