On the evening of October 5, 2021, 19-year-old Shaun Leachman was found with a gunshot wound to the back of the head in the 700 block of North Euclid Avenue in St. Louis’s Fountain Park neighborhood. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene around 5:00 p.m. He lived in Cool Valley in St. Louis County but was killed inside the city.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation. By about November 17, 2021, police arrested Kenneth Johnson; prosecutors later charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with the October killing. The case was distinguished from an earlier, unrelated September 18, 2021, killing of a different 40-year-old man who happened to have the same name, Shaun Leachman, which involved a Jeep Cherokee or Grand Cherokee with a missing wheel cover as a vehicle of interest.

If anyone saw activity in the 700 block of North Euclid Avenue around 5:00 p.m. on October 5, 2021, or has information about either incident, please come forward.