Mark Stanford Rhodes was a 28-year-old Black man from St. Louis, Missouri who died in 2009. Publicly accessible online records located in connection with his death do not provide a clear, confirmable account of the circumstances, nor do they identify a suspect or document an arrest tied to his name.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s published materials for that period show the city faced a heavy volume of killings in 2009, reporting 143 homicides overall and noting that many cases were cleared while others remained open. Those official postings, however, present information in aggregate—counts, clearance rates, and demographic breakdowns—rather than case narratives that would allow a specific death to be matched reliably to a named victim.
The department also makes older monthly “downloadable crime files” available online, including reports for November 2009, but the format is geared toward basic incident data rather than detailed storytelling, and the version available through that portal does not provide a straightforward way to confirm the facts of Rhodes’ death, trace a suspect, or follow a case through arrest, charges, trial, or conviction. In the sources reviewed through that official archive, no public entry was found that clearly links his name to a specific incident record or a later court outcome.
