Emon Saunders was 16 when he was found wounded in the passenger seat of a Chrysler sedan that had crashed into a ditch outside Christian Hospital Northeast on the evening of January 9, 2021. He had suffered a gunshot wound, was taken into the hospital in critical condition, and died the next day on January 10, 2021.

Investigators determined the shooting occurred earlier at an address on the 1700 block of El Sabado Drive in the Spanish Lake area of north St. Louis County. Police believe the driver was trying to get Saunders to the hospital when the vehicle crashed on hospital property. The driver’s identity was initially unknown.

The St. Louis County Police Department’s bureau of crimes against persons reclassified the case as a homicide and later arrested two 16-year-old males in connection with the shooting. Both were turned over to St. Louis County Family Courts; their identities were not released because they are minors.

If anyone has information about the shooting or events on El Sabado Drive that evening, please share what is known.