A confrontation in a north St. Louis County parking lot turned deadly in the late morning of February 26, 2022. Just after 11 a.m. in the Spanish Lake area, two men argued in the 11000 block of Bellefontaine Road and the dispute escalated into a gunfight. Responding St. Louis County officers found a chaotic scene; 39-year-old Johnny Bond Jr., a Florissant resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other man involved suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital.

Police described the investigation as active and appealed for witnesses, but initial reports did not identify the other man or detail arrests, suspects, or charges. The circumstances leading up to the confrontation and the relationship, if any, between the two men remain unclear.

If anyone saw what happened in that parking lot or has information about the shooting, please come forward to assist the ongoing investigation.