In the summer of 2016, the life of 54-year-old Marquetta Toran was tragically cut short in St. Louis, Missouri. On the morning of Friday, July 29th, a call was made to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reporting a 'person down' in an alley. When officers arrived at the scene in the Fountain Park neighborhood, they made a grim discovery.
There, in the west alley of North Euclid Avenue, they found a woman who was unresponsive.
It was soon determined that she had sustained a gunshot wound. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, and the Homicide Division was called in to take over the investigation. The following day, the woman was formally identified as Marquetta Toran. She had lived in the 5100 block of Cates Avenue, not far from where her body was discovered.
The initial investigation by the police department's Homicide Division sought to piece together the events that led to Toran's untimely death. The Violent Crime Unit was also involved in the case. However, details regarding a motive or potential suspects were not immediately made public.
In the years that have followed, there have been no public announcements regarding any arrests or the identification of any suspects in the murder of Marquetta Toran. The case has grown cold, leaving her family and community without answers or a sense of justice. Her death is listed as an unsolved homicide, one of the many that continue to trouble the city of St. Louis.
