A few minutes after sunset on June 12, 2010, three shots rang out in Allens Alley on Wilmington’s East Side, and a young man lay dying. It was a drug deal gone bad, the kind of violence that’s become so pervasive in the city that police say it can be tough to tell victims, suspects and witnesses apart. Cynics in the criminal justice system sometimes dismiss such murders as “thug-icide,” and the public rarely sheds a tear.
But the murder of 28-year-old Anthony Bing that Saturday night took a financial toll on every person in Delaware.
Taxpayers got the bill for the police investigation, plus the work of paramedics and hospital staff who tried to save Bing’s life and the work of a medical examiner after he died. They paid both for prosecutors and defense attorneys in two murder trials. They’ll be paying for the incarceration of three killers for decades to come. Taxpayers may also foot the bill for social services for Bing’s family.
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