Maur’Trell Wilkes was 16 when he died of a gunshot wound on Sunday, December 30, 2018, at about 2:15 p.m. on the 10400 block of Baron Drive in St. Louis County. Known as Young Trell and described as an aspiring rapper, his mother recalled supporting his musical goals as long as he kept his grades up.

Initial accounts from the scene left open the possibility the shooting was accidental or a suicide, but investigators from the St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons later treated the death as a homicide. Within days detectives arrested a 17-year-old who lived at the same address; reports say the two were friends and that they had been playing with a gun when the fatal shot was fired. The juvenile was charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action and held on a cash-only bond.

Does anyone who knew Maur’Trell or who was in the Baron Drive area that afternoon have information that could clarify what happened?