A child’s birthday party in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of South St. Louis ended in deadly violence on the evening of June 5, 2021. William Deandre Kennedy, 27, was attending a celebration on the 3000 block of Mount Pleasant Street when someone at the party shot him. Kennedy died from his injuries and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Authorities say the shooter was not an outside stranger but another person who had been at the gathering. Minutes after the shooting, a 22-year-old man, Michael G. Davis Jr., surrendered at police headquarters. Prosecutors charged Davis with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with Kennedy’s death.

Did anyone at that party or nearby hear or see details that could help clarify what happened that evening?