On January 29, 2023, Devon Williams, 18, was shot and later killed during a planned $20 marijuana purchase at a BP station on South Florissant Road in Cool Valley, Missouri. According to investigators, Bryant Pirtle offered the drug inside the station and directed Williams to a Honda Accord outside. After Williams turned to walk away, Pirtle and the vehicle’s driver, Christopher Hall, both exited and opened fire. As the two men fled, Hall ran over Williams with the car. Williams was taken to a hospital and did not survive.

The FBI, the St. Louis County Police Department, and the Normandy Police Department worked the case. Investigators linked Pirtle to the scene through iPhone location data and surveillance video that showed him with a gray Lacoste backpack later recovered from him. Hall’s Beretta handgun was recovered in July 2024, and court records say he later bragged in text messages about running Williams over.

Both men were indicted on federal charges related to the killing. On October 15, 2026, Pirtle, then 23, and Hall, 25, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime resulting in death; sentencing was scheduled for January. Does anyone have information about Williams’ movements that night or the people involved at the gas station?