Clarence Jefferson, 39, was fatally shot after shielding three others during an attack in Walnut Park West, Saint Louis. On the afternoon of Friday, May 27, 2022, Jefferson was standing on the back porch of a home in the 5900 block of Lucille Avenue when several people began firing from Emma Avenue and Park Lane. Jefferson pushed the three others inside the house to safety and then collapsed on the porch from his wounds.

Paramedics took Jefferson to a hospital, and he died three days later on Memorial Day, May 30, 2022. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and reported multiple suspects were involved; no arrests have been announced and the case remained unsolved as of May 2022. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Homicide Division at 314-444-5371 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).

Did anyone in the Walnut Park West area see or hear anything that afternoon that could help investigators?