Vincent Leonard Ashford

In the autumn of 2008, the life of a young man was tragically cut short on a street in St. Louis, Missouri. Vincent Leonard Ashford, a 22-year-old Black / African American male, was found shot to death on October 20, 2008. The promising future that lay before him was extinguished in an act of violence that left a family grieving and a community searching for answers.

In the days and weeks that followed, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Division launched an investiga ...