On the early morning of July 4, 2018, 31-year-old Thomas Michael Hearst Jr. was shot and later died at a hospital after an exchange that began as an attempted motorcycle theft on Lemay Ferry Road in South St. Louis County, Missouri. Hearst and an accomplice had returned to the apartment complex to try again after being interrupted the night before. The motorcycle’s owner, 28-year-old Neville Wright, and another person confronted them.

Hearst fled in a black pickup while Wright and the other person followed. After Hearst turned onto a dead-end street, Wright reportedly fired a warning shot into the air and then fired through the truck’s windshield as Hearst tried to escape. Hearst was hit, crashed shortly thereafter, and died of his wound at a hospital.

Prosecutors charged Neville Wright with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon; Wright was held on a $500,000 cash-only bond as proceedings began. Did anyone witness the confrontation on Lemay Ferry Road or have information about events that night?