Dustin Breuer, 39, was found in the rear yard of a residence in the 3100 block of Pennsylvania Avenue in the Benton Park West neighborhood of St. Louis in the early morning hours of June 3, 2024. He had sustained a fatal gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene just before 3:45 a.m. At the time he was living in the 3000 block of Cherokee Street. Breuer was a former Greenville resident and a United States Army veteran.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation. As of early June 2024 no suspects had been publicly identified and no arrests announced. The circumstances leading to the shooting remain under investigation.

If anyone in Benton Park West that night saw anything or knew Dustin’s movements, please share information with investigators.