Asia Symone Baker was 18 when she was killed in a shooting in St. Louis’s Hyde Park neighborhood on May 7, 2023. A recent Hazelwood East High School student who had just turned 18 in March, she wanted to be a teacher or a makeup artist and loved dancing; family described her as sweet and caring.Around 2 a.m. that Sunday police found Baker and another 18-year-old, Aaliyah Gillom, dead from gunshot wounds in the 2100 block of Branch Street.

Two other young women, ages 17 and 18, were critically wounded; one, who was pregnant, required an emergency C-section.Investigators say the women had been brought to the location by two men. Court documents identify one as 36-year-old Eddie Love and allege the men had taken the women ostensibly to a bar but instead engaged in marijuana transactions and left them in the vehicle before an altercation during which Love allegedly opened fire. Love was later arrested on federal gun and drug charges related to the events that night.

Was anyone in the community at or near Branch Street that morning who can add details about what happened?