On the early morning of December 24, 2021, a double shooting during an apparent robbery left 58-year-old Derrick Lee Brookfield dead in Wellston, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Officers found Brookfield and another man near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Ogden Avenue; both had been shot. The second victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition, while Brookfield was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis led the investigation after the North County Police Cooperative requested assistance. Detectives identified 28-year-old Cedric Maxwell Jr., of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as a person of interest; authorities say he was taken into custody, confessed during questioning, and was charged by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office with Murder in the First Degree, Robbery in the First Degree, Assault in the First Degree, and three counts of Armed Criminal Action. Bond was set at $1 million with no ten-percent payment option. Investigators were also seeking a second, unnamed accomplice believed to have been involved but not remaining in the St. Louis area.

Does anyone have information about that night or the people who were in the Wellston area around Martin Luther King Drive and Ogden Avenue on December 24, 2021?