On the morning of February 4, 2021, three members of a St. Louis family were found shot to death inside their Dutchtown home on the 4100 block of South Grand Boulevard. Victims were one-year-old JaKari ReRe Hemphill, her 30-year-old mother Kanisha Hemphill, and a 7-year-old sister, Journee Hemphill. Officers had been dispatched that day after a report of shots fired; the scene was described by police as tragic and disturbing.

Investigators quickly focused on Ronald Marr, identified as Kanisha Hemphill’s ex-boyfriend and JaKari’s father. Records say officers had been called to the same address for a domestic disturbance two days earlier. Authorities allege Marr discarded his cell phone, bought a new one, and purchased a Greyhound bus ticket as he fled Missouri; he was arrested about 100 miles away in Illinois.

Marr was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of armed criminal action. A St. Louis jury later found the 36-year-old guilty on all counts. What details from the Dutchtown neighborhood or the family’s timeline might help readers who knew them remember that week?