A 17-year-old named Jayden McCain was shot and killed shortly before 10:00 p.m. on Friday, February 10, 2023, in the 1800 block of High Sun Drive in unincorporated St. Louis County near Florissant. Officers found him in a parking lot at the Sunset Park Condominiums with apparent gunshot wounds; a roommate who heard the shots ran out and attempted CPR before emergency crews transported him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A handgun was recovered near the victim at the scene.

Witnesses reported a grey Kia fleeing the area, and that lead investigators to Bellefontaine Neighbors, where three juvenile boys aged 15, 16, and 17 were arrested and charged with second-degree murder and detained at the St. Louis County Family Court. Authorities did not immediately disclose a motive or the relationship, if any, between McCain and the suspects.

McCain was a junior at Hazelwood West High School who had lost both parents years earlier and had been living with a family friend; family described him as goal-oriented, working for his grandfather and saving for a car. If anyone saw activity around Sunset Park Condominiums that night or has information about the grey Kia, please come forward.