Lamar Howell

Lamar Howell was a 41-year-old Black man whose life ended on May 23, 2011, in St. Louis, Missouri. Born on April 16, 1970, Howell had celebrated his birthday just over a month before his death. His killing became part of the city's homicide investigations during a year marked by widespread violence. Police records identify the location associated with his death as 3142 Arsenal Street, in the Tower Grove East neighborhood of south St. Louis. His death was officially classified as a homicide.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department documented Howell's death under homicide incident number 11027592. Although the location and date are established in official records, publicly accessible information provides few details about the circumstances surrounding the killing. Available reports do not establish precisely what happened before his death, how the fatal injuries were inflicted, whether he was attacked inside or outside the property, or whether anyone witnessed the incident. The circumstances that brought Howell to the location and the events leading to his death remain unclear.

The investigation was recorded as an open homicide in police data subsequently obtained and published by APM Reports. The database, which includes St. Louis homicide information spanning 2004 through 2023, identifies Howell's case as unsolved. This designation indicates that investigators had not officially cleared the homicide in the records available for that publication. No publicly verified information was located identifying a suspect, establishing a motive, or documenting an arrest directly connected to his killing.

Further searches did not uncover confirmed criminal charges, court proceedings, convictions, or sentencing involving anyone responsible for Howell's death. It is unknown whether investigators developed significant leads, interviewed potential suspects, recovered forensic evidence, or identified individuals of interest whose names were never publicly released. The absence of these details from accessible records does not necessarily mean investigators lacked evidence, only that such information could not be independently verified.

More than fifteen years after Howell's death, the publicly available record leaves fundamental questions unanswered. His killing remains listed as an open case in the historical homicide database, with no verified prosecution or conviction identified. What happened on Arsenal Street on May 23, 2011, who was responsible, and why Howell was killed remain unresolved in the information available to the public.