Eighteen-year-old William Kaheim Bellamy was shot and killed on the grounds of McCluer North High School in Florissant during the night of June 11, 2021, or the early morning of June 12. Bellamy, a recent graduate who planned to enroll at St. Louis Community College that fall, was found deceased from apparent gunshot wounds after a caller reported a body on the school campus.

Investigators determined the shooting grew out of an ongoing personal dispute rather than a random act. The person who called police, eighteen-year-old Aurelius Collier, was at the scene when officers arrived and was identified by detectives as the primary suspect. Collier was taken into custody and later charged by the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office with first-degree murder and armed criminal action; a judge set bond at $500,000, cash-only.