Douglas Sanders, 31, of Florissant, Missouri, was killed in a shooting on the McKinley Bridge in the late hours of March 4, 2023. Sanders had been a passenger in the back seat of a car that was returning to Missouri after the group had spent time at a strip club in Illinois.

A 37-year-old man in the same car was also shot and critically injured, and required weeks of hospital treatment. Sanders was taken to a hospital but later died of his wounds. St. Louis detectives identified a suspect, and 34-year-old Brandon Lawrence Allen of St. Louis was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Sanders’s death, first-degree assault for the other victim, and two counts of armed criminal action.

Anyone who was on or near the McKinley Bridge that night or who has information about the events leading up to the shooting is asked to come forward.