UPDATED: Suspect in June 2024 Fatal Shooting in Salisbury Arrested in Delaware
UPDATED – 05/03/25 – Maryland State Police have arrested a Lincoln man wanted in a fatal shooting in Salisbury in June of 2024. Around 9pm Friday night, Delaware State Police were tipped that a man wanted for a murder in Maryland was in a parking lot in Millsboro.
Delaware State Police located the vehicle and made a traffic stop and the driver identified as 28 year old Fernando Medina-Moreta, who was wanted by Salisbury Police in the June 10, 2024 shooting death of 23 year old Franklin Abraham Perez Rodriguez of Miami, Florida.
Moreta is charged with 1st and 2nd degree murder and other related charges and is being held in Delaware awaiting extradition to Maryland.
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UPDATED – 07/09/24 – Your help is needed to locate the suspect in a deadly shooting on June 9th in Wicomico County. Maryland State Police are looking for 27 year old Fernando Medina-Moreta of Seaford. Medina-Moreta is wanted in connection with the murder of 23 year old Franklin Rodriguez of Miami, Florida. The two men were fighting at a home on East Naylor Mill Road when Medina-Moreta pulled out a firearm and shot Rodriguez. Medina-Moreta left the scene – Rodriguez was taken to TidalHealth Peninsula Regional Hospital where he was declared dead.
If you have information on the whereabouts of Medina-Moreta, who is considered armed and dangerous, contact Sgt. Scott Sears at 443-783-7230.
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ORIGINAL STORY – 06/10/24 – Maryland State Police and Salisbury Police are investigating a shooting Sunday morning (June 9) around 2:30 in a parking lot on East Naylor Mill Road. Police say a fight led to shots fired and police learned that 23 year old Franklin Rodriguez Perez of Miami, Florida was critically injured and later died from his injuries at the hospital.
State Police ask anyone with information to call 410-479-3101 or Salisbury Police at 410-548-3165 or Crime Solvers at 410-548-1776.