On a Tuesday night in April 2020, officers in St. Louis found the body of a young woman on a sidewalk along Franklin Avenue in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. She had suffered a fatal gunshot wound and was initially unidentified; investigators noted she wore olive-green pants and red-and-white Nike sneakers. Two days later family members identified her as 18-year-old Carieal Doss, a Parkway West High School senior who worked at McDonald’s and planned to play basketball at Illinois State University. Detectives said she was likely shot elsewhere and left on the sidewalk.

Nearly a year after the killing, police arrested Levi Henning on a first-degree murder charge, but the Circuit Attorney’s Office dismissed those charges in March 2023, amid disputes over evidence handling and defense claims of withheld exculpatory information. In June 2023 Carieal’s brother, Jacorren Riley, encountered Henning in the West End; surveillance footage reportedly showed Riley chasing Henning and shooting him, and Henning later died. Riley was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action and in June 2024 pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, receiving a ten-year sentence.

If anyone knew Carieal or has information about where she might have been before she was found, please share what you know.