On the late afternoon of December 21, 2022, 15-year-old Demond Allen Tucker was found in a parking lot in the 8300 block of Octavia Avenue in Jennings, St. Louis County, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. First responders arrived about 4:30 p.m.; Demond was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived about a mile from where he was found.

Investigators say Demond had been in a car with three other young people who drove him to a semi-vacant apartment complex. A witness reported hearing three shots and then seeing two people pull Demond’s body from the back of the vehicle and leave him in the parking lot. He had been shot three times and left to die.

The St. Louis County Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons detectives opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for any information that could lead to an arrest. Does anyone have information about Demond’s last hours, the vehicle, or the people seen that afternoon?