On May 2, 2024, officers responded to a distress call at a home in the 4500 block of Cleveland Avenue in the Southwest Garden neighborhood of St. Louis. Inside the residence they found Dorcino Jackson unresponsive with multiple puncture wounds — stab wounds to his lower right back and upper right arm — and pronounced him dead at the scene. He was bound to a wheelchair due to a prior leg injury and reportedly could not defend himself or flee.

Detectives recovered a knife from a drawer that appeared to have been partially cleaned but still held traces of dried blood. Tina Jackson, 30, who lived at the home and was identified as the victim’s romantic partner and mother of his children, was arrested at the scene. The probable cause statement says a verbal argument escalated into physical violence and that she admitted to stabbing the victim. A prior 2021 domestic incident was also noted in which the suspect allegedly attempted to slash the victim’s car tires with a knife.

Does anyone in the Southwest Garden area have information about the couple or the events leading up to May 2?