James Demon Whitney, a 42-year-old African American man, was killed on January 9, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department classified the death as a homicide and listed the location as 5428 Robin Avenue in the Walnut Park East neighborhood. The case was logged under homicide investigation number 19001348.

The sequence of events, weapon, presence of witnesses, and motive are not established in those records. The homicide file is recorded as closed, but the documentation reviewed does not explain how the investigation was resolved or whether any arrest, charge, prosecution, or conviction followed.

James Whitney’s death remains on the city’s homicide list with the official case number as the lead reference. Did anyone who knew James or who lived near Robin Avenue in January 2019 see or hear anything that could help explain what happened?