On a Friday night in February 2019, 45-year-old Demetrius L. Stewart was killed while sitting in his car during a date night at Tropicana Lanes bowling alley in Richmond Heights, Missouri. A fight inside the bowling alley between 24-year-old Dante Lorenzo McGary and another person spilled into the parking lot. McGary retrieved a handgun from his vehicle, approached the car where Stewart was seated, and shot him twice in a case of mistaken identity. Stewart was taken to a local hospital but died of his injuries.

Stewart was a husband, the father of two teenage children, and an associate minister at Westside Missionary Baptist Church. The shooting occurred after an unrelated dispute and left a community mourning a man described as devoted to his family and faith.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about that night, please share what is known.