On the evening of January 11, 2022, St. Louis police responded to a shooting in the 5300 block of South Compton Avenue in the Carondelet neighborhood. Officers arrived at about 9:12 p.m. and found 25-year-old Isaiah Joseph Danfort unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds; emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. Investigators recovered evidence including about 15 shell casings.

Police arrested a suspect, Quinton T. Roberts, on January 27, 2022. Roberts reportedly told detectives he had shot Danfort with an AR-15 rifle. The Circuit Attorney’s Office initially charged unlawful possession of a firearm and later added first-degree murder and armed criminal action; a grand jury later returned an indictment that adjusted the charges to second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful gun possession.

Does anyone have information about Danfort, his movements that night, or the neighborhood around South Compton Avenue on January 11, 2022?