Roderick Silinzy, a 40-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the afternoon of May 22, 2018, in the College Hill neighborhood of St. Louis. He was driving in the 2100 block of Linton Avenue when gunfire struck him; his vehicle kept moving and crashed into a vacant residence. Emergency responders found Silinzy at the scene and he was pronounced dead. Early police reports did not identify a suspect or say what investigators believed had led to the shooting.

Silinzy had been a cooperating witness in the June 8, 2017 homicide of Gentrall Wafford. That case produced charges against Terrance Williams and Brandon Cross, and prosecutors later alleged that documents naming cooperating witnesses circulated among people connected to the defendants. Authorities accused Anthony Big Ant Demyers and Larry Poppy Strickland of attempting to pressure Silinzy and others; both were charged with witness tampering, though neither was charged with killing Silinzy. Williams was tried in January 2020 and acquitted on counts tied to the Wafford case, including the witness-tampering allegation connected to Silinzy; Strickland pleaded guilty to tampering and received an 18-month sentence.

Despite the investigation into witness intimidation and related prosecutions, publicly reported information does not identify anyone arrested, charged, tried, or convicted for Silinzy’s murder. Does anyone have information about Silinzy, his movements on May 22, 2018, or the shooting in the 2100 block of Linton Avenue?