The death of Tradena Lashay Peters, a 31-year-old female, occurred during a violent incident on the afternoon of March 12, 2021, in St. Louis County, Missouri. The fatal event took place on Interstate 270 between New Halls Ferry and Old Halls Ferry roads, a busy stretch of highway north of the city. Peters was traveling in a vehicle when the situation escalated into gunfire, leading to a chaotic scene on the roadway.
Emergency responders arrived to find that Peters had sustained fatal
injuries during the shooting, and she was pronounced dead. The violence did not end with her death; two other individuals involved in the incident were also struck by gunfire and required transportation to a local hospital for treatment of their injuries. Reports from the time described the victim as a resident of the Metro East area who had been in the St. Louis region when the attack occurred.
Law enforcement officials, specifically troopers with the Missouri Highway Patrol, launched an investigation into the homicide immediately following the shooting. Despite the public nature of the crime scene, initial inquiries yielded no immediate apprehension of a suspect. As of the last available updates from local crime tracking resources in early 2022, authorities were still searching for the gunman responsible for the attack, and no arrests or charges had been publicly reported in connection with Peters' death.
