On the night of July 17, 2025, 27-year-old Jawon Deshawn Cooper was fatally shot in the Walnut Park West neighborhood of St. Louis. ShotSpotter alerts for the 6000 blocks of Emma and Lucille Avenues drew officers to the area just before 10:00 p.m., and police were later told a shooting victim had been taken by private vehicle to a hospital. Cooper arrived with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives located the likely crime scene in the 5400 block of Park Lane, where they canvassed and collected evidence while homicide investigators opened a continuing probe. In the days after the killing, authorities said they had developed leads that led to two arrests: a 26-year-old man booked on Murder in the 1st Degree, Armed Criminal Action and two counts of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, and a 33-year-old woman charged with Unlawful Use of a Weapon and Trafficking in the 2nd Degree in Drugs.

Who in the Walnut Park West area might have seen or heard something the night of July 17 that could help investigators piece together what happened?