On the afternoon of July 4, 2022, 17-year-old Makahyah Griffin was fatally shot in the Kingsway West neighborhood of St. Louis. The attack happened about 4:00 p.m. near Maffitt Avenue and Union Boulevard while Griffin was riding in a vehicle with two adults, a 61-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman. An unknown assailant fired into the car; the adults were not struck.

The driver drove the wounded teenager to a nearby fire station in the 5200 block of Natural Bridge Avenue, where first responders took Griffin to a hospital. Griffin died of his injuries. Detectives from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department homicide division took over the investigation. The shooting occurred during a violent holiday weekend, less than an hour and under a mile from another fatal shooting, though authorities did not immediately connect the two incidents. No suspect description or arrests had been released in initial reports.

If anyone saw the vehicle or the shooting, or has information that could help investigators, please come forward.