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Ma’Lasia Pruitt, 21, was fatally shot outside the Gen X clothing store in St. Louis’ Fountain Park neighborhood on a Wednesday evening in July 2020. The dispute began inside the store and continued outside; police said it was over money and their children and that surveillance footage captured the moment. The video reportedly shows the father of her child, 23-year-old Nolin Holder, concealing a gun inside a bag, pointing it at Pruitt, and a muzzle flash coming from the bag.

After the shooting Holder left in a car but officers stopped a vehicle matching that description and found a bag and a gun matching the surveillance evidence. He was arrested, charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, and police later found him hiding under a porch. At trial, Holder said the gun fired accidentally as he tried to flee, a claim the prosecution disputed; a jury convicted him in March 2022 of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, with exposure to a sentence of 10 years to life.

Did anyone in the Fountain Park area see what happened outside the store that night or recognize the vehicle that fled the scene?