In the early morning hours of October 1, 2022, 27-year-old Darrell Carter Jones Jr. was found lifeless and unclothed in the 3000 block of Walton Place in the Kingsway East neighborhood of St. Louis. Police were called shortly after 5:45 a.m. for a naked man lying in the road; officers discovered Jones with a gunshot wound to his face and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Jones’s family described him as a gentle and loving entrepreneur and fashion designer. Investigators say he had been driving with a friend, Laveal D. Jones II, after leaving a nightclub in Sauget when an argument over money turned physical. Authorities report that Laveal Jones gained control of Darrell Jones’s firearm and shot him twice, then removed the victim’s clothing and left the body on Walton Place. The friend’s vehicle, a 2015 Kia K900, was later driven to East St. Louis and set on fire.

What does anyone in the Kingsway East or Sauget area remember about that night or about Darrell’s last movements?