Bryant Kieth Ballard, 46, was found badly wounded on Walnut Park West in north St. Louis in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 3, 2013. Officers responding around 2:30 a.m. to the 5600 block of East Alice Avenue discovered him outside a home after gunfire. Ballard had been shot in the head and in the back and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arriving.

Initial accounts describe an active homicide investigation but do not establish how the shooting began or whether it started inside the house or in the street. Those reports did not name any suspect, nor do they list arrests, charges, hearings, or convictions connected to the killing. The basic facts remain: a violent, late-night shooting at a residential address that ended Bryant Ballard’s life.

If anyone was in the area that night or has information about what happened on East Alice Avenue around 2:30 a.m., please come forward.