On the evening of July 26, 2012, 20-year-old Ronisha J. Jackson was among a group gathered in Gravois Park near Miami Street and Louisiana Avenue on St. Louis south side. At about 9:15 p.m. unknown assailants opened fire into the crowd. Ronisha and 16-year-old Kiera Tanter were both struck and later died at a local hospital; three other people were wounded but survived. Ronisha left behind a one-year-old daughter, Marissa.

The case remained an open homicide with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and no suspects had been taken into custody for the Gravois Park shooting. In a later tragedy for the family, Ronisha’s older brother, Ronald Jackson Jr., was also shot and killed in South St. Louis in April 2019, less than a mile from where Ronisha was killed in 2012.

If anyone was at Gravois Park that night or has information about the gunmen, please come forward.