Terrance Taylor, 55, was found dead in an alley in the 3200 block of Oregon Avenue in the Benton Park West neighborhood of St. Louis in the early morning of November 7, 2023. First responders arrived about 2:17 a.m. after reports of a body on fire; after extinguishing several small fires they found Taylor deceased. The death was declared intentional and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation with assistance from the Bomb and Arson Unit.

Police have been probing whether Taylor’s death is connected to another man who was found shot and burned in the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area around the same time. As of late 2023 no suspects had been publicly identified and no arrests announced. Investigators continue to ask anyone with information to contact the Homicide Division or CrimeStoppers.

A separate, unrelated case involved a different Terrance Taylor, age 21, who was fatally shot near a playground in the 2900 block of Canfield Drive in Ferguson on June 5, 2022; that incident is not linked to the November 2023 homicide.