On the evening of March 25, 2015, authorities in Ferguson, Missouri, began an investigation into a violent incident discovered within a local residence. Police were called to a home located in the 1000 block of Highmont Drive around 5:00 p.m. upon reports of an unresponsive individual. Inside the residence, officers discovered the body of 45-year-old Gary Denwood, a male resident of the home.
He had sustained fatal gunshot wounds, and investigators immediately treated the scene as a homicide.
Detectives processing the scene noted a distinct lack of forced entry into the house, suggesting that the victim may have known his assailant or that the entry had been otherwise unforced. The Ferguson Police Department, represented by spokesperson Jeff Small at the time, released these details to the public in hopes of generating leads. Despite the initial collection of evidence and the absence of signs of a break-in, the immediate circumstances leading up to the shooting remained unclear to investigators on the scene.
In the years following the discovery, the case has not yielded public reports of arrests or the filing of charges against any specific suspects. The death of Gary Denwood remains listed among unsolved cases in the region, with no individuals publicly identified as the perpetrator or brought to trial for the crime. The investigation has remained open, with law enforcement continuing to seek information that might shed light on the events that transpired inside the Highmont Drive home that Wednesday evening.
