In the early morning hours of September 4, 2020, officers in the Academy/Sherman Park neighborhood of St. Louis found a truck that had struck a tree near the intersection of Union Boulevard and Wells Avenue. Inside the vehicle was 75-year-old George Groves, who had sustained fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators concluded the shooting likely caused the subsequent crash.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Division processed the scene and asked for witnesses, but authorities did not release a suspect, motive, or report any arrests at the scene. The case remained under active investigation with no one charged in connection with Groves’s killing. If anyone saw or heard anything in that area the morning of September 4, 2020, please come forward with information.