On the morning of April 24, 2017, tragedy struck a residence in the Glasgow Village neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Evelyn Gates, a 51-year-old female, was inside her home on the 400 block of Kirkwall Drive, resting in a front bedroom. Around 2:30 a.m., the silence of the night was shattered when a vehicle traveling down the street unleashed a hail of gunfire at the single-family house.
The residence was occupied by six people at the time of the attack, but the bullets that pierced
the structure fatally struck only Gates while she slept. Law enforcement officers rushed to the scene following reports of shots fired, which were quickly reclassified as a homicide investigation upon the discovery of the victim. Despite the presence of multiple witnesses inside the home, no other injuries were reported from the barrage of gunfire.
Investigators determined that the shots had come from a vehicle driving by the property, but details regarding the specific make or model of the car involved in this particular shooting remained scarce in immediate reports. The incident occurred during a particularly violent violent weekend in St. Louis, where multiple shootings had taken place across the city, including one involving a maroon Dodge Charger in a separate incident nearby. However, authorities did not immediately confirm a definitive link between the cases. As of the last available public updates, no suspects had been taken into custody specifically for the murder of Evelyn Gates, and the case has remained an unsolved inquiry into a senseless act of violence that claimed a woman's life in the safety of her own bed.
