Trenell Rogers was 15 when he was found fatally shot in a field near a pond off Coventry Drive in north St. Louis County on May 29, 2017. He had celebrated his fifteenth birthday earlier that month. Family described him as a respectable young man who was being legally adopted by his aunt Sha McKinnies and who had been trying to improve his grades. Friends said he had not been attending school for several months and had fallen in with the wrong crowd amid a difficult home situation with little parental supervision.

In October 2017 the St. Louis County Police identified 18-year-old Rodrick Gunthorp as a person of interest and described him as armed and dangerous. On January 3, 2018, U.S. Marshals arrested Gunthorp on Lance Court in Florissant on charges including second-degree murder, robbery and two counts of armed criminal action in connection with Trenell’s death. The family and community have been left waiting for a clear public outcome to those charges.

If anyone knew Trenell, his movements that spring, or has information about the events near Coventry Drive on May 29, 2017, please come forward.