A four-month-old infant, Dorian Whitlock, was found unresponsive in a residence on North Florissant Avenue in north St. Louis in the winter of 2017 and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. An autopsy by the Medical Examiner concluded the death was not natural and listed chronic abuse as the cause of death, a finding that reclassified the case as a homicide.

After the medical examiner’s ruling, police focused their investigation on those closest to the child. The infant’s parents, a 22-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man, were taken into custody while warrants were under advisement; immediate reports did not include details about formal charges or later legal outcomes.

If anyone knew Dorian, her caretakers, or has information about what happened at that North Florissant Avenue residence, please come forward to investigators.