On the morning of Sunday, November 8, 2020, St. Louis police began a homicide investigation after a man was found fatally shot in an alley near Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Marcus Avenue, on the border of the Lewis Place, The Ville and Kingsway East neighborhoods. Officers were dispatched at about 7:04 a.m. and located the body of 28-year-old Robert Lee Jackson.

Although discovered in the city, investigators say Jackson lived in Spanish Lake in St. Louis County. Detectives also processed a secondary scene just south of the alley where a silver sedan had crashed into an earth mover in a field; both locations were searched for evidence related to the shooting. No suspects had been taken into custody and no motive was released in the initial investigation.

Anyone who knew Jackson or who has information about the shooting or the crash is asked to contact the Homicide Division or CrimeStoppers.