How to stop the killing

In a modest apartment just off the freeway in Creve Coeur, a suburb of St Louis, An’namarie Baker is packing up her son’s possessions. Three weeks earlier, at 3am on July 3rd, Damion was murdered in a litter-strewn car park south of the Busch Stadium, where the Cardinals play baseball. He had left a nightclub with a woman he had just met to drive her to pick up her car. According to the detective on the case, a man challenged him, demanding his keys. Instead, Mr Baker fought back, only for more men to emerge and open fire. Mr Baker was shot eight times, and the woman he was with five. Bullets from three different guns were found at the scene. He died; she survived. Nobody has been arrested.