On Sunday, June 20, 2021, forty-one-year-old Brian Gardner Jr. was found suffering from gunshot wounds to his torso on the 4200 block of Ellenwood Avenue in the Bevo Mill neighborhood of St. Louis. He lived a short distance away on the 4500 block of Gravois Avenue. First responders transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened an investigation, canvassing south St. Louis for witnesses and evidence. No immediate arrest or publicly identified suspect was announced at the time. Gardner was remembered by family and friends as a devoted father and was known by nicknames including Scan, Leezy, and Scan G; he is survived by a son named Kameron.

Was anyone in the Bevo Mill area on June 20 who saw anything that could help investigators piece together what happened to Brian Gardner Jr.?