On July 26, 2019, 49-year-old Arthur Hodges was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Chevelle Apartments in Riverview, St. Louis County, Missouri. Hodges had returned to his apartment after work and went back to his blue Pontiac G8 to retrieve a forgotten item around 1:00 a.m., when a stranger confronted him during what authorities described as an armed carjacking. The assailant fired a weapon and fled in the stolen Pontiac, taking some of Hodges’ personal property.

Police issued an alert for the vehicle; the Pontiac was located about 6:30 a.m. and did not stop for officers. A roughly 20-minute high-speed pursuit crossed into the city of St. Louis and ended at Goodfellow Boulevard and Maple Avenue when the stolen car crashed into a sedan carrying two bystanders, who suffered minor injuries. The driver tried to run but was captured by a police canine. He was identified as 20-year-old Joshua Harper and was charged by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, assault, and armed criminal action and held on a cash-only bond.

Anyone who knew Arthur Hodges or has information about the incident is asked to come forward.