Aaliyah Stanley was 22 when she was found with a fatal gunshot wound on the 3600 block of Delor Street in the Dutchtown neighborhood of Saint-Louis, Missouri, in the early hours of June 23, 2019. A Hazelwood resident remembered as kind-hearted and aspiring to be a nurse, her death came during a day that saw multiple shootings across the city.

Months passed with few answers until an unexpected link appeared during a South Carolina homicide probe. Investigators there arrested Daunte Maurice Johnson in connection with a double murder and found him driving Stanley’s car. Hill, Aaliyah’s mother Beverly Hill, said Johnson had been intoxicated at a party and was playing with a firearm when it discharged, striking Aaliyah in the head. A South Carolina arrest warrant later stated Johnson had shot Stanley in Missouri, taken her vehicle, and fled.

South Carolina authorities treated Johnson as a suspect in the St. Aaliyah’s family continues to grieve and remember her wish to help others. Did anyone in Dutchtown or Hazelwood know Aaliyah or have information about the night of June 23, 2019?