On the evening of April 22, 2024, 27-year-old Daniel Hughes was fatally shot in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood of St. Louis. Police responded just before 9:00 p.m. to reports of gunfire in the 1600 block of Hamilton Avenue; Hughes was critically wounded and taken in a private vehicle to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation. The shooting occurred minutes after another killing roughly three miles away on Elmbank Avenue; investigators initially looked for a connection but a police spokeswoman later said there was no evidence linking the two incidents and they were being treated as separate crimes. In the days after Hughes was killed, no suspects had been taken into custody and no descriptions of perpetrators were released. Hughes, a former Normandy High School student known by the nickname 2 Baby E, left behind a community seeking answers.

If anyone has information about the shooting of Daniel Hughes, please share what is known with the St. Louis homicide division.