Late on the night of February 28, 2023, 57-year-old Lazaro Hernandez was found in an alleyway in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of St. Louis with fatal gunshot wounds. Officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded and opened a homicide investigation; Hernandez was publicly identified as the victim three days later on the following Friday.

Police reports released at the time did not provide a motive or descriptions of any potential assailants.

If anyone who lived in Hamilton Heights that night or who may have seen activity in the alley has information, please share it with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.