In the DeBaliviere Place neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, the evening of November 10, 2014, was shattered by violence that claimed the life of 21-year-old LaTunji McElroy. Inside his apartment in the 5600 block of Pershing Avenue, near the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink station, a dispute escalated to a fatal conclusion. McElroy was discovered with a gunshot wound to his neck and was pronounced dead at the scene.
St.
Louis police quickly identified a person of interest in the shooting, a 22-year-old male. Investigators believe that an argument between McElroy and the suspect preceded the deadly shooting. In the immediate aftermath, law enforcement launched a search for the suspect, who was reported to be at large.
Despite the initial identification of a suspect, the trail appears to have gone cold. Publicly available information and news reports have not provided any updates on an arrest in the case. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's resources for unsolved homicides do not offer any specific resolution to this case, leaving the circumstances surrounding McElroy's death and the pursuit of justice for him officially unresolved in the public domain.
