A vigil held in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis for a recently deceased person ended in violence on October 26, 2025. Around 12:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Gasconade Street, Stanley Scott, 32, was shot multiple times in the street outside the home where friends and family had gathered for a balloon release and vigil. Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert found Scott inside the residence; bystanders had been administering aid. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Scott, a resident of north St. Louis County, was a father of five children — three sons and two daughters — and was remembered by family as a happy person and a good friend. A suspect, 51-year-old Donald Gregory Jones, turned himself in the Monday after the shooting, confessed and admitted disposing of the firearm, and was identified by several witnesses with two picking him from a photo lineup. He was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action and held without bond. No motive has been released.

If anyone attended the vigil or has information about what happened that night, please share what can help the investigation.