On the morning of February 4, 2021, officers responded to a shots-fired call at a home in the 4100 block of South Grand Boulevard in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis. Inside, 30-year-old Kanisha Hemphill and her two daughters, eight-year-old Journee and one-year-old Ja’kari, were found with fatal gunshot wounds.

Investigators identified Hemphill’s ex-boyfriend, Ronald S. Marr, the father of her youngest child, as a suspect. Reports say Marr discarded his cell phone, bought a replacement and a Greyhound bus ticket in an apparent attempt to leave the state; he was arrested the next day in Effingham, Illinois. Police had been called to the residence twice in the days before the killings for domestic disturbances.

A jury later convicted Marr of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of armed criminal action, and a judge imposed consecutive life terms plus 45 years. Does anyone have information about Kanisha, her daughters, or their time in Dutchtown that could add context to the case?