Makeshift memorial grows for employee slain during robbery in New Castle County

A makeshift memorial is growing outside the Metro by T-Mobile store in New Castle County where an employee was shot to death

Police were called to the store just after 5 p.m. on Saturday on the 900 block of Kirkwood Highway for an apparent robbery.

When they arrived they found Leslie Ruiz-Basilio shot and killed in the basement.

The suspect is a black male, approximately 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 2 inches, 180-210 pounds. This was the 4th time in the past two years the store has been robbed.

The suspect got away in a 2008 black Cadillac Escalade with the Delaware registration number pc194769.

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