On June 3, 2019, in the 3100 block of Rauschenbach Avenue in St. Louis, 27-year-old Jabari Clark was asleep in the driver’s seat of his 2012 Dodge Ram in front of his home when two armed men attempted to carjack the truck. One assailant approached the driver’s side and tried to pull Clark from the vehicle; a struggle followed. Clark staggered from the truck, collapsed on his front lawn and later died of his wounds after the two men fled.

Surveillance footage from a nearby home recorded the incident. Investigators recovered a phone charging cord at the scene that yielded DNA linking Jalen Exavier Simms to the attack. In December 2019 Simms, then 24, was federally indicted on attempted carjacking resulting in death and a firearm charge. On August 1, 2022, the day his trial was to start, Simms pleaded guilty to one count of attempted carjacking resulting in death and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Authorities are still seeking the identity of the second man involved.

If anyone has information about the second assailant or witnessed the early morning of June 3, 2019, please come forward.