In the summer of 2015, a weekend in St. Louis, Missouri, was marked by a surge of violence that left eight people dead, including 23-year-old Shakiyla Young. On Monday, July 20, 2015, Young was tragically killed in a shooting.
Details surrounding the specific circumstances of Shakiyla Young's death are not widely available in the public record. It is known that her death was the result of gun violence. Another individual, 21-year-old Ce'Onta Cretter, was also killed in the same incident.
The deaths of Young and Cretter were part of a violent weekend in St. Louis that saw a total of eight homicides.
Despite the passage of time, information regarding any arrests or the identification of any suspects in the murder of Shakiyla Young remains publicly unavailable. The investigation into her and Ce'Onta Cretter's deaths has not yielded any publicly disclosed leads, and the case remains unresolved.
