On the early morning of July 24, 2024, officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a call reporting a shooting in the Greater Ville neighborhood. Around 1:00 a.m., law enforcement arrived at the 4600 block of Elmbank Avenue, a residential area in St. Louis, Missouri. Upon their arrival, they discovered a male victim lying in the doorway of a vacant residence, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.
Emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene to render aid, but the victim was pronounced dead before he could be transported to a hospital.
For some time following the discovery, the deceased remained unidentified, referred to initially by authorities only as a man believed to be an adult. It was not until later in the investigation that homicide detectives identified the victim as 17-year-old Dameon Kennedy-Henderson, a resident of nearby Ferguson, Missouri. The young man's death was classified as a homicide, prompting detectives to launch an inquiry into the events that led to the fatal shooting outside the unoccupied home.
As of the available reports following the incident, the investigation into the death of Dameon Kennedy-Henderson remained active and ongoing. Police had not announced any arrests or publicly named any suspects in connection with the murder. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Division continued to seek leads, urging anyone with information about the shooting to contact them directly or to submit anonymous tips through CrimeStoppers in hopes of determining the circumstances that ended the teenager's life.
