Timothy Lucas, a 14-year-old Black male, lived with his father and his paternal grandmother, Agatha Davis. In the days after his death, his grandmother remembered him as a sweet boy. "I want people to know he wasn't a bad boy, he could be sweet," she shared.
On the evening of Saturday, January 18, 2020, Timothy was walking to a store in the Baden neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. At approximately 6:15 p.m., while in the 8300 block of North Broadway, an assailant shot him in the chest. First responders rushed Timothy to a local hospital, but he died about an hour later.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation. Timothy's grandmother made a public plea, urging whoever killed her grandson to surrender to police. Authorities did not immediately release a motive for the shooting.
About two weeks after the incident, a 14-year-old male suspect turned himself in to police, and the case was initially referred to the juvenile court system.
The suspect was later identified as Marcus Ursery, who also went by the nickname "Mojo." Ursery eventually admitted to the shooting and pleaded guilty to the murder of Timothy Lucas. The case was concluded in April 2023, when Ursery was sentenced to serve nearly 20 years in prison.
