Tracy Fields, 44, was fatally shot on December 19, 2015, in St. Louis. Officers were called to a residence in the 5500 block of Genevieve Avenue after a shooting was reported; she was found inside a vehicle parked behind her home and pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound.

Investigators quickly focused on people close to Fields. Her adult son, identified in reports as 21-year-old Travon Fields, had moved in with her and her long-time boyfriend about a month earlier. Police arrested Travon shortly after the shooting; reports state he admitted to shooting his mother during questioning and was charged by the Circuit Attorney’s Office with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Family and neighbors expressed shock that a woman described as devoted to her son was killed in this way. If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Tracy or her household, please come forward.