On the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, gunfire was reported in the Benton Park West neighborhood of Saint Louis, Missouri. Officers responding to the 2600 block of Pestalozzi Street, near Jefferson Avenue, found 21-year-old Davion J. Birchfield with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

Detectives later identified a suspect and arrested Donald Vogler. The Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Vogler with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Birchfield was a resident of the 3700 block of Minnesota Avenue and investigators say he was targeted in the daylight shooting that killed him.

If anyone in the neighborhood that afternoon has information about the shooting or saw activity on Pestalozzi Street near Jefferson Avenue, please share what you know.