On the morning of March 27, 2023, violence disrupted the quiet of the Benton Park West neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. Just before 9:00 a.m., 26-year-old Jalea Marie Loeffelman-Hunter was sitting inside a vehicle parked in an alley behind the 3000 block of Iowa Avenue. She was accompanied by an 18-year-old male when gunfire suddenly erupted, targeting the vehicle and its occupants.
A police officer patrolling the area heard the distinct sound of gunshots and immediately began to canv
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