A street argument in the Mark Twain neighborhood of St. Louis turned deadly on a Saturday afternoon. On September 27, 2025, 23-year-old Tishon Wordlaw of O’Fallon, Missouri, and a 29-year-old man engaged in a confrontation in the 5300 block of Ruskin Avenue that escalated to both men drawing firearms and exchanging gunfire. Police arrived just after 2:30 p.m. and found both men with gunshot wounds.

Emergency responders took them to a nearby hospital; Wordlaw’s wounds proved fatal and he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, while the other man was admitted in critical but stable condition. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Division is handling the investigation and has not announced any arrests.

Is anyone in the area that afternoon able to provide information or dashcam footage that could help investigators?