On the night of December 21, 2022, 49-year-old Joseph Farrar of Saint Louis was shot and killed at the Speedie Gas Station near North Broadway and Riverview Boulevard in the Baden neighborhood. Farrar was at the station to buy medicine for his 11-year-old son when a violent confrontation erupted that was unrelated to him.

The violence began after a Hyundai Tucson stolen earlier that evening from the home of 35-year-old Demesha Coleman in Spanish Lake was located by Coleman using GPS. Coleman, a 19-year-old son and another armed person went to the gas station. Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators shows Coleman and an accomplice approaching the stolen vehicle with weapons drawn; as she opened the car door, a gun battle broke out between her party and the occupants of the stolen SUV. Darius Jackson, a 19-year-old passenger in the stolen vehicle, was also killed; a third man was critically wounded.

Authorities arrested Demesha Coleman on multiple charges related to the shooting. Farrar’s family said he had been working to turn his life around after a 2021 prison release. Does anyone have information about Farrar’s final movements that night or saw what happened at the gas station?