On the evening of June 8, 2011, 44-year-old Dereke Hayes was shot and killed outside his home in the 5300 block of Claxton Avenue in the Walnut Park neighborhood of St. Louis. First responders found Hayes suffering fatal injuries, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department canvassed the area for witnesses and evidence.

Investigators described no clear motive and had not publicly identified a suspect. The case remains an unsolved homicide with no arrests announced, leaving family and neighbors without answers about whether the shooting was random or targeted.

If anyone remembers seeing activity on Claxton Avenue that evening or has information about Dereke Hayes’s death, please come forward to assist investigators.