On the night of June 8, 2019, 16-year-old Jashon Johnson was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds near the intersection of Red Bud Avenue and Margaretta Avenue in the O’Fallon Park neighborhood of St. Louis. Police responded to a call about 10:40 p.m.; first responders took him to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives treated Johnson’s killing as part of a troubling spike in child homicides in St. Louis that summer. Investigators reported a lack of cooperative witnesses and limited definitive leads, and the case eventually went cold. After a September 2019 arrest of a suspect in a separate teen murder, detectives said they would examine any possible connections to Johnson’s death, but no charges were announced linking that suspect or anyone else to this killing.

Johnson’s slaying remained listed among the unsolved child homicides in St. Louis, and his story was later cited in community efforts addressing unresolved gun violence. Does anyone have information about Jashon’s last night or the area around Red Bud and Margaretta that could help investigators?