On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 17, 2023, officers in St. Louis responded to a reported shooting in the Vandeventer neighborhood. At about 4:19 p.m. they found a man inside a vehicle in the 4200 block of Cook Avenue. He was identified as 40-year-old Kirk Lowe Jr., who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. Emergency medical personnel transported him to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Lowe lived nearby in the Central West End on the 4200 block of Maryland Avenue; the shooting occurred roughly two blocks south of Page Boulevard. Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened an active investigation. At the time of the initial reports, no suspects were in custody and police gave no information about a motive or the shooter’s identity.

If anyone in the Vandeventer or Central West End area saw activity or has information about what happened that afternoon, please share what you know with investigators.