Mark Stanford Rhodes was a 28-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri who died in 2009.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department materials from 2009 show the city recorded 143 homicides that year; the department’s public postings present aggregate counts, clearance rates, and demographic breakdowns but do not offer case narratives that can be matched reliably to an individual victim. Monthly downloadable crime files for November 2009 are available in a basic incident-data format, but the version reviewed does not link Rhodes by name to a specific incident record or any later court outcome.

What additional details about Mark Stanford Rhodes or his death might help narrow this case for researchers or relatives who remember him?