On the morning of May 25, 2017, officers responded to the 1100 block of Canaan Avenue in St. Louis’ Baden neighborhood after reports of a shooting. In an alleyway a 29-year-old woman, Keiva Jones, was found unresponsive in a vacant lot with a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. A 52-year-old man, Corvell Wraggs, was also found with a gunshot to the head and survived after being taken to hospital.

A utility worker who had been in the alley to fix a streetlight witnessed a gunman approach and shoot both victims, then had his cell phone stolen. Investigators linked this attack to a separate fatal shooting minutes earlier at a gas station on the 3600 block of Dunn Road, where 28-year-old Andre Jones was killed at the pumps. Detectives traced the suspect to Casey Lowery, who fled south in a blue and silver 1990 Chevrolet Silverado and was apprehended later that day in Selmer, Tennessee.

Lowery was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and multiple counts of armed criminal action. At trial in September 2022 the jury convicted him of second-degree murder for Keiva Jones and of first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action for the other shootings. If anyone knew Keiva or saw activity in the Baden area that morning, please share what was observed.