Late on April 30, 2020, around 11:15 p.m., officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a shooting in the West End neighborhood on the 5600 block of Maple Avenue. Officers found 23-year-old Black male Joshua Tyler Hayes-Scott suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Police initially reported the shooting victim as a woman before correcting the identification to Hayes-Scott. Homicide detectives have not announced any arrests, and no suspects or motive have been made public. The case remains an open homicide investigation and was one of several violent incidents reported in the West End during that period.

Did anyone in the West End area on the night of April 30, 2020, see or hear anything that could help investigators?