On the night of August 21, 2022, 20-year-old Jaron Lemmitt was found fatally shot on the front porch of a residence in the 4800 block of Farlin Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood of St. Louis. Officers arrived just after 11:00 p.m.; Lemmitt was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was reported to live on the 3400 block of Giles Avenue in Tower Grove South.

Homicide detectives searched for witnesses and evidence near the scene, but initial reports said the circumstances leading up to the shooting were unclear and investigators had no named suspects or arrests in the days that followed. Two years earlier, in July 2020, Lemmitt, then 18, had been arrested and charged in a deadly shooting at the St. Louis Galleria that left 21-year-old Jaquan Steed dead; the case records explain how serious charges once followed him.

Anyone who knew Lemmitt or witnessed activity near Farlin Avenue on the night of August 21, 2022, is asked to share information with authorities.