Deshon Maurice Moore

In the landscape of St. Louis, a city grappling with a high number of homicides, the story of Deshon Maurice Moore, a 20-year-old Black male, adds a somber note to the statistics of 2014. On the evening of Wednesday, November 19, 2014, his life was cut short by gunfire. He was discovered in the 5100 block of a street that police did not publicly disclose, slumped over in a car, the victim of a fatal shooting.

Emergency responders were called to the scene, where they found Moore unresponsi ...