Anthony Hempstead, a 26-year-old Black man known by the nickname Ant G, was shot and found in an alley in the 800-block of Jefferson Avenue in Cape Girardeau on June 28, 2014. Police records state he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

The killing occurred just days after the Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad had been active on a different homicide. The squad mobilized for Hempstead’s case, ran the early investigation, then—under bylaws limiting deployments—returned primary responsibility to the Cape Girardeau Police Department while providing assistance as needed.

Online memorial posts identify Hempstead as a father of two and connect him to Eclipse Barber School, underscoring the family life taken by the shooting. On March 5, 2016, the Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney filed first-degree murder and armed criminal action charges against Terrance Bernard Vance, 29, of Cape Girardeau, in connection with Hempstead’s death; Vance was already in the Missouri Department of Corrections when those charges were filed.

Did anyone in Cape Girardeau know Anthony Hempstead or have information about the night of June 28, 2014?