In the early morning hours of a Tuesday in February 2021, the quiet of a north St. Louis neighborhood was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Responding to the call just before 2 a.m., police arrived in the 4700 block of Wren Avenue to find a man lying wounded. The victim was identified as 30-year-old Leslie Moore, a resident of the same street, who lived just a couple of blocks away in the 4900 block. He had sustained fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Leslie Moore was a Black male.
The initial investigation by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department treated Moore's death as a homicide. Detectives canvassed the area for evidence and sought to piece together the events that led to the deadly shooting. Despite their efforts, information regarding a motive or potential suspects was not immediately released to the public. The investigation into the circumstances of Leslie Moore's death continued, but details about any persons of interest or arrests remained scarce in the days and weeks that followed.
As time passed, Leslie Moore's case faded from the headlines, and with no publicly announced breaks in the investigation, his death became one of the many unsolved homicides in the city. There have been no subsequent reports of arrests made or charges filed in connection with the shooting. The search for who was responsible for the death of Leslie Moore and the reasons behind the violent act that ended his life on that cold February morning has continued without a publicly known resolution.
