The 21-year-old woman whose body was found discarded like trash along a Wilmington street was loved, her mother tells NBC10.
Precious Hoskins was found dead along the 800 block of E. 22nd Street Wednesday afternoon. She was shot several times and her body was stuffed into a recycling bin outside a home along the street, police said.
“Wherever she went, everybody loved her,” the woman’s mother, Mary Dunham, said.
Dunham said her daughter had some troubles in the past, but had recently turned a corner. She was living at home and helping care for her grandparents and nieces and nephews.
Since her daughter’s death, the mother said she learned Hoskins’ on-again, off-again boyfriend was abusive and apparently spent time in jail for threatening a person with a gun.
“He was a good dude, he was just dealing with some mental issues,” Dunham said.
The boyfriend, who is not being named because he has not been charged with a crime, lived down the street along the 200 block of Locust Street. Police executed a search warrant at a home on the block Thursday morning and SWAT officers took a person of interest into custody for questioning, police said. It’s not clear whether that man is Hoskins’ former boyfriend.
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Charges have not been filed in the case. Detectives continue to ask anyone with information to come forward.
