William Nelson Jr., a 29-year-old man from St. Louis, was killed on April 6, 2026, after a shooting near North 10th Street and Cass Avenue in the Old North St. Louis neighborhood. The shooting was reported at about 6:40 p.m., placing the attack in the early evening near a busy part of the city, close to downtown and the surrounding residential streets.
Police said Nelson was shot and then taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
The available online information gives only a brief picture of the moments after the violence. Nelson’s death was recorded as a fatal shooting, and his case was listed among St. Louis homicide victims for 2026. Publicly available reports did not describe what led up to the gunfire, whether Nelson was targeted, whether there was an argument or confrontation beforehand, or whether anyone else was injured at the scene.
No publicly available online sources located identified any suspect or suspects in Nelson’s killing. The sources also did not report any arrests, charges, court filings, trial dates, or convictions connected to the case. Based on the available reporting, the case appears to remain unresolved publicly, with no named person accused in the shooting.
After Nelson’s death, funeral and memorial notices identified him as William Nelson Jr. of Saint Louis and reflected the grief of family, friends, and community members mourning a life cut short. While those notices focused on remembrance rather than the circumstances of the killing, they show that his death was felt beyond the crime scene, leaving people who knew him to process the sudden loss while the public record offered few answers about who shot him or why.
