On December 29, 2022, a domestic visit in the Carr Square neighborhood of St. Louis ended in a fatal shooting. Thirty-five-year-old Jeffery Avant was at an apartment in the 1800 block of Cass Avenue visiting Deidra Prince when Jeffery Lamonte Lumzy arrived, demanded that Avant leave, and a confrontation followed. Lumzy left briefly but returned by climbing over a back porch railing and shot Avant once in the chest.

Avant was taken to a local hospital but died of his wounds. After the shooting, Lumzy forced Prince and her five children out of the apartment and tried to flee in her rental car; a maintenance worker initially intervened, and Lumzy later stole the vehicle and left the scene. A manhunt followed, and officers located Lumzy in Harvey, Illinois, where he was arrested in February 2023 and brought back to St. Louis to face charges.

Does anyone have information about the events at the apartment that night or knew Jeffery Avant?