Ricky Shields, 47, was found fatally shot inside an apartment in the Fountain Park neighborhood of St. Louis on the evening of January 18, 2017. Officers responding to the scene discovered his body and investigators described the scene as a shooting; detectives canvassed the area and interviewed residents as they worked to reconstruct events from that night.

In the days after the killing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department developed leads and made an arrest in connection with the fatal shooting. The suspect’s name was not immediately released at the time of that development.

If anyone in Fountain Park that evening or those who knew Ricky have information that hasn’t been shared with detectives, please consider coming forward.