On the night of July 18, 2023, 26-year-old Gersain Rugerio-Rodriguez was shot and killed outside his home in the 9400 block of Baltimore Avenue in Overland, Missouri. Co-workers had dropped him off that evening; he lingered in his driveway smoking a cigarette around 11:30 p.m. when a vehicle drove past, circled back, and a gunman opened fire. Rugerio-Rodriguez died at the scene.

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis assisted the Overland Police Department, with 17 Major Case detectives and five Overland officers assigned. Investigators reported finding no prior connection between the victim and the suspected shooter and described the attack as seemingly random, possibly the culmination of a crime spree. Shortly after the killing, authorities arrested 26-year-old Gavon Simmons of unincorporated St. Louis County and charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action; he was held on a $1 million cash-only bond. Simmons was separately linked to an earlier altercation that night outside a Waffle House and faced additional charges stemming from that incident, plus a record of prior convictions.

Are there witnesses or nearby residents who remember activity on Baltimore Avenue that night or noticed a vehicle circling the block?