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On June 3, 2017, just after 1 a.m., 17-year-old Jalen Woods was inside a car at a gas station near Union and Paulian in North St. Louis when two masked men approached and opened fire. Jalen and a 25-year-old occupant, Amber Green, were killed at the scene; two other people nearby were critically wounded with multiple gunshot injuries.

Authorities arrested 25-year-old Ollie L. Lynch and his 24-year-old girlfriend Makala R. Mayo after their vehicle struck an air dispenser while attempting to flee. Lynch was charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Jalen Woods and Amber Green, three counts of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon, and was held without bond. Mayo later admitted to being an accomplice and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection with Amber Green’s death; she received a nine-year prison sentence and 15 other charges were dismissed.

Lynch went to trial on the murders of Woods and Green and other charges; a jury acquitted him of the counts related to Jalen Woods and Amber Green but convicted him of first-degree murder in an unrelated killing. Does anyone have information about Jalen’s last known movements or contacts that night?