On Saturday, February 13, 2021, 15-year-old Teshawn Ford was fatally shot during an encounter in St. Louis’s Greater Ville neighborhood. The shooting happened about 2:20 p.m. in the parking lot of Desta’s Market on the 2500 block of North Taylor Avenue. Investigators say Ford had arranged to meet another teenager to exchange firearms; during the transaction the other individual tried to forcibly take the weapon and fired multiple shots.

Ford suffered multiple gunshot wounds, ran from the parking lot, and collapsed near a vacant home. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. A 70-year-old bystander was also struck in the leg by a stray bullet and treated at a hospital in stable condition. Police identified an 18-year-old male, Treshawn Fox, after he arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound sustained during the altercation; Fox was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, first-degree property damage, and two counts of armed criminal action.

Does anyone in the area remember seeing activity near Desta’s Market on February 13, 2021, or have information that could help clarify what happened during that exchange?