Charles McBride, 42, was fatally shot the night of October 29, 2023, in the 7800 block of Rio Silva Place in the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. McBride had gone into a vacant apartment to conduct a drug transaction while a woman who had accompanied him waited outside in a car. The woman heard two gunshots from inside the building and later found McBride’s body in the apartment’s kitchen; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

After the shooting a man exited the building, approached the waiting woman’s vehicle wearing a red, white, and blue coat, pointed a gun at her face, demanded drugs, took a watch and loose change, and fled in a silver vehicle. Homicide detectives traced calls and evidence to 42-year-old Edward J. Gray; the witness identified Gray in a police lineup and investigators say Gray’s phone number had been used to call McBride shortly before the shooting. Gray was taken into custody and held without bond, and prosecutors filed felony charges including first-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful use of a weapon.

Does anyone have information about the meeting at Rio Silva Place or the silver vehicle that fled the scene?