On the morning of Saturday, October 6, 2018, gunfire in the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis left 36-year-old Jacob Hudson dead in the street on the 6400 block of Idaho Avenue. Paramedics pronounced Hudson deceased after officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrived following reports of a shooting around 9:50 a.m. Hudson ran Hudson’s Heating & Cooling, lived a few houses from where he was killed, and had spent the prior year renovating his home.

He is remembered by family and neighbors as a hardworking, community-minded man who often helped others and as an animal lover whose two dogs were cared for by the Missouri Humane Society before being returned to his family. He is survived by a daughter, his parents, and five siblings. Investigators initially sought two teenage males seen in the area, then arrested 17-year-old Jarvis Campbell and charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action; charging documents say Campbell admitted to shooting Hudson. No specific motive was released and the family says there appears to have been no apparent reason for the killing.

Did anyone in the Carondelet area see anything that morning or know more about Hudson’s activities in the days before October 6, 2018?