Fifteen-year-old Shayne Rocquel Burrow, a student at University City High School in St. Louis, Missouri, was last seen walking away from the school on December 15, 2022. An endangered person advisory had been issued because he reportedly made suicidal comments and lacked necessary medication. His body was found on December 19, 2022, in the 7300 block of Delmar Boulevard at the rear of a building; officers responded to a man down call and observed what appeared to be a gunshot wound.

The initial medical examiner’s report ruled the death a suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Shayne’s family commissioned a private investigator whose findings — including a lack of gunshot residue on Shayne’s hands and questions about the firearm’s position relative to the body — prompted the medical examiner to amend the report. The cause of death was revised to gunshot wound and the manner changed to undetermined. The University City Police Department says the case is closed and not a homicide, and no arrests or suspects have been named.

If anyone knew Shayne, saw him near University City High School on December 15, 2022, or has information about what happened that week, please share what is known.