Davion Booze, 24, was shot to death on April 17, 2020, in south St. Louis, Missouri. Police were called in the middle of the afternoon to the 4900 block of Fyler Avenue, near the edge of the Tower Grove South area, after reports of a shooting that had spilled into the street and left two people hit. Officers found Booze and a woman with gunshot wounds; Booze had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, while the woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

Early accounts placed the violence at close range and around a vehicle rather than as a random distant shot. Investigators appealed for anyone who might have seen the shooting or captured it on security cameras, saying the answers were tied to a specific person, a specific car, and a narrow slice of time. Years later, Demond Ward, 41, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, and first-degree assault, admitting he shot Booze while Booze sat inside a car on Fyler Avenue and critically wounded the woman with the same burst of gunfire. A circuit judge accepted the plea and said Ward would be sentenced to 15 years in prison.

If anyone saw the shooting, the vehicle involved, or has information about that afternoon on Fyler Avenue, please share what is known.