In the early morning hours of June 23, 2024, a shooting in downtown St. Louis left 26-year-old Larry Lewis III dead. The violence began about 3:30 a.m. near 10th and Market streets by the Citygarden sculpture park when a dispute among a group of women escalated after men intervened, leading to an exchange of gunfire.

Six people were struck. Emergency responders found Lewis critically wounded; he was taken to a local hospital and died from his injuries. The other five victims — four men ages 18 to 24 and a 21-year-old woman — survived with varying injuries. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation into the downtown shooting.

What details about who fired the fatal shots or the motive remain unclear? If anyone has information about that night near Citygarden, please come forward.