Richard Anderson

Richard Anderson, 33, male, was killed in a burst of overnight gunfire that shattered the quiet of St. Louis’ O’Fallon neighborhood in the earliest minutes of February 14, 2024. Just after midnight, shots rang out near the intersection of Kossuth and Turner, and when officers arrived they found Anderson suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

The timing was cruelly precise: police said the shooting happened just before 12:30 a.m. in the 4100 block of Turner Avenue. Anderson was found in the street and rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Reports noted that he lived on the same block where he was killed, turning the scene from a crime scene into something even more personal—an ending that happened close to home.

In the hours after the shooting, investigators treated the case as an active homicide investigation, but public updates offered little about who pulled the trigger or why. No suspect description was shared in those initial reports, and no arrest or charges were announced in the information made public at that time. Police asked anyone with information to contact CrimeStoppers with an anonymous tip as detectives worked to piece together what happened in the dark.