On the night of September 27, 2020, Samuel Reece, 29, was riding his bicycle in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of St. Louis when an encounter with occupants of a Kia Soul escalated into gunfire. Reece was shot multiple times, was taken to a local hospital by people who left before police could speak to them, and later died of his injuries. First responders had initially been called to the 4300 block of South Broadway for a shooting but could not find a victim until officers were notified of Reece’s arrival at the hospital.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s homicide division opened the investigation; this was listed as the city’s 206th murder of the year. Investigators recovered cartridges from two different firearms at the scene. Beyond those scene details and the report that the shooters fled in the Kia Soul, little has been released about motive or the identities of the other occupants who transported Reece to the hospital.

If anyone saw activity around South Broadway on the night of September 27, 2020, or knows who was in that Kia Soul, please come forward with information.