Clenard Jones III, a 31-year-old Black man, was found fatally shot in the Jeff Vanderlou neighborhood of north-central St. Louis on November 16, 2017. Officers discovered him unresponsive in a residential area and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives from the St.

Friends and family remembered Jones as calm, passionate, and family-oriented, and noted he had attended Missouri State University-West Plains. Although other people with the same surname faced prosecution for unrelated homicides in St. Louis around that period, no arrests or charges specifically connected to Jones’s killing were publicly reported. Is there anyone who knew Clenard Jones or who has information about what happened that night?