On the evening of January 12, 2021, 51-year-old Ronald Ross of Granite City, Illinois, was found with fatal gunshot wounds in the parking lot of a business in the 200 block of Chambers Road in Riverview, St. Louis County, Missouri. He was taken to a local hospital but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead. The Riverview Police Department called in the St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons to lead the homicide investigation.

Investigators say the shooting began during a drug transaction that had been arranged between Ross and another man; an argument during the deal escalated and Ross was shot. In the days after the killing, police released images of a person of interest and a vehicle described as a newer model GMC Terrain. By September 2021, authorities had identified 40-year-old Rodney Toney and charged him with second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance in connection with Ross’s death. Toney, reportedly on parole and wearing a GPS monitor at the time, was not immediately apprehended and was believed to possibly have fled to the Memphis, Tennessee, area. The case remains pending his capture.

Did anyone in the Riverview or Granite City area see the GMC Terrain or have information about the transaction that led to Ross’s death?