On the evening of June 12, 1990, 23-year-old off-duty St. Louis police officer Lorenzo Rodgers was killed in front of a laundromat at 532 Des Peres Avenue. Rodger s was standing outside when a 20-year-old man, Lamarr Pearson, approached and brandished a handgun in an attempted robbery. Rodgers drew his service revolver; both men were struck in the exchange of gunfire. Rodgers was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the head and died at the scene. Pearson was hit in the leg, arm, and abdomen, collapsed nearby and was arrested.

Pearson was charged with Officer Rodgers’s murder and later convicted. Rodgers had served 14 months with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department at the time of his death. Does anyone have recollections of the neighborhood or that night that could shed more light on what happened?