Dr. Sergei Zacharev, 58, was found with apparent gunshot wounds at the Drury Inn on 8700 Eager Road in Brentwood, Missouri, shortly before midnight on May 15, 2021. Officers arrived about 11:45 p.m.; Zacharev was pronounced dead at the scene. He was born in Minsk, Belarus, and had built a medical career and family life in the St. Louis region.

Less than an hour earlier, shots struck a car in University City on Delmar Boulevard around 10:51 p.m.; Barbara Goodkin was fatally wounded and her husband Stanley Goodkin survived. Ballistic evidence soon linked the two attacks, and investigators expanded the probe from a single scene into a multiagency manhunt that crossed state lines. Police asked the public to watch for a smaller SUV or passenger vehicle that might have been involved.

Authorities later identified suspects and filed multiple charges in St. Louis County, alleging the pair committed the two killings along with robbery, assault, weapons offenses, and armed criminal action; fugitives were pursued into South Carolina where arrests and further legal actions followed. If anyone knew Dr. Zacharev or saw a small SUV or passenger vehicle in the Delmar Boulevard or Brentwood areas that night, please come forward with information.