On the evening of Monday, April 29, 2024, 26-year-old Timothy McCuller-Lawson was found shot in a parking lot in the O’Fallon neighborhood of North St. Louis. Officers responded just before 6:00 p.m. to reports near Kossuth and North Newstead avenues and located him collapsed against a parked box truck in the 4100 block of North Newstead. He had suffered gunshot wounds to his back and arm and was pronounced dead at the scene. McCuller-Lawson lived on the 1600 block of North First Street in St. Louis.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department had not identified or arrested any suspects in the immediate aftermath; detectives were investigating motive and working to determine who was responsible. If anyone in the community saw activity around Kossuth and North Newstead on April 29 or has information about this shooting, please share what you know with investigators.