On the morning of May 15, 2021, officers in St. Louis responded to reports of a shooting in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood and found a man with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest on the 1900 block of Arlington Avenue. The victim, identified as 24-year-old Emmanuel Jones of Bellefontaine Neighbors (1100 block of Saint Cyr Road), was unconscious and not breathing when first responders arrived. He was rushed to a local hospital but was pronounced dead about an hour after police were alerted.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Division took over the investigation. Detectives reported no information about a suspect or a motive in the immediate aftermath and urged anyone with information to contact the Homicide Division or CrimeStoppers.

If anyone in the Wells-Goodfellow area on May 15 saw something or has information about Emmanuel Jones’s shooting, please share what you know with investigators.