On the evening of September 19, 2019, 19-year-old African American male Labaron Jackson was shot and killed in the South City area of Saint Louis, Missouri. The fatal shooting occurred on a Thursday night, marking another violent incident in the city that year. Jackson was found suffering from gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead, with his passing later memorialized by friends and family who referred to him by the nicknames 'Leeskie' or '6 Leeskie.'
Prior to his death, Jackson had been
a subject of a federal criminal investigation. In July 2018, he was named as a defendant in a federal indictment targeting a drug trafficking organization operating out of the Clinton-Peabody housing complex. Prosecutors alleged that Jackson, known as 'LB' in court documents, was involved in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and had possessed a firearm as a convicted felon. He was facing serious federal charges alongside several co-defendants at the time he was killed.
Despite the high profile nature of the federal case he was involved in, online sources do not report any specific arrests or charges filed against a suspect for Jackson’s murder. While other individuals with the surname Jackson have been involved in separate, unrelated homicides in the St. Louis area around the same timeframe, no information is available detailing the apprehension or conviction of the person responsible for Labaron Jackson's death. The case appears to have remained without a public resolution regarding the perpetrator.
