Lekeshia Stokes, 39, was shot and killed in the early hours of February 11, 2022, after a brief traffic incident in the 8500 block of Church Drive in the Baden neighborhood of St. Louis. Stokes had been returning home from a karaoke event after dropping off a friend when her car sideswiped a parked Jaguar and then struck the vehicle in front of it. Three men reportedly exited the Jaguar and fired multiple shots into Stokes’s car.

A passenger in the suspects’ vehicle told police they heard Stokes yelling she was sorry and pleading for them not to shoot. Police surveillance captured the entire incident. Stokes was struck by multiple gunshots and later pronounced dead at a local hospital. The shooting left her four children without their mother; her sister is now raising them.

What information might help fill gaps about the moments leading up to the shooting or the relationship between the vehicles involved?