On April 5, 2016, at about 11:16 PM deputies responded to a shooting on the 100 block of Amelia Drive in unincorporated Cahokia, Illinois. They found 19-year-old Leroy D. Short of East St. Louis with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department asked the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis to assist. Investigators identified 19-year-old Lamondrae D. Garner as a suspect, and he was charged with first-degree murder with bond set at $1,000,000.

Short was 19 at the time of his death. If anyone knew Leroy Short or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.