Deolandis Dabney, 27, was fatally shot on Friday, July 29, 2022, while riding as a backseat passenger in a vehicle on Interstate 55 in St. Louis. The shooting happened around 12:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes near Gasconade Street; emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. Two other people in the car were uninjured.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police homicide detectives said the violence on the interstate may have been related to an earlier altercation at Gravois Avenue and Russell Boulevard. The southbound lanes were closed for several hours as investigators processed the scene. Two men, ages 35 and 36, called police shortly after the shooting and were taken into custody in south St. Louis County; reports did not immediately disclose formal charges or identities.

Anyone who witnessed the shooting on I-55, the earlier fight at Gravois and Russell, or who has information about the men taken into custody is asked to come forward.