On the afternoon of June 23, 2019, Michael Vincent Langsdorf, a 40-year-old officer with the North County Police Cooperative in St. Louis County, Missouri, was killed while responding to a disturbance at Clay’s Wellston Food Market on Page Avenue. Langsdorf, who had 17 years of prior law enforcement experience and had been with the cooperative three months, confronted a man attempting to cash a fraudulent check. A physical struggle occurred inside the store and the suspect, later identified as Bonette Kymbrelle Meeks, struck the officer multiple times with a firearm. After Langsdorf fell, witnesses and surveillance show Meeks standing over him and firing a single shot into the back of his neck. Langsdorf was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Meeks fled but was captured nearby and found with the weapon believed used in the killing; he had a substantial criminal history in North Carolina. A second person, Kawyn Smith, was arrested accused of supplying the fraudulent checks and driving Meeks to the store. Meeks was later convicted of second-degree murder and related charges and Smith was charged under the felony murder rule. Does anyone have additional information about Langsdorf’s last known movements before he entered the market or about witnesses at the scene?