Eighteen-year-old Dwayne Clanton was shot and killed in a St. Louis alley on December 26, 2016. He was with a 16-year-old friend, James Scales, when a school acquaintance, identified as Keith Graham, pulled out a gun and shot Dwayne in the head. Scales cooperated with police and identified Graham as the shooter, and Graham was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Dwayne’s death.

Authorities allege that while Graham was incarcerated he tried to prevent Scales from testifying by arranging to have him killed, allegedly recruiting others to carry out the plot. On September 5, 2017, Scales was ambushed and fatally shot while waiting for his school bus. The investigation into that killing led back to Graham and several associates, who were charged in connection with Scales’s murder.

Those events left two families grieving and raised difficult questions about witness safety and accountability. If anyone knew Dwayne, where he spent time, or has information about the alley shooting on December 26, 2016, please come forward.