Santino Sonny Taylor

In the winter of 2008, the life of Santino Sonny Taylor, a 28-year-old African-American man, was cut short in St. Louis, Missouri. On the evening of February 23rd, Taylor was killed in an incident that authorities would classify as a homicide. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Division was tasked with unraveling the events that led to his death, a case that would add to the city's grim statistics of violent crime.

Investigators descended upon the scene, meticulously ...