County detectives took over the case after the Thursday night shooting in north St. Louis County.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Two men were found shot to death late Thursday in the City of Country Club Hills, and St. Louis County police said Friday that no suspect had been taken into custody in the double homicide investigation.
The shooting drew investigators from both the local and county level after officers were called to the 5600 block of Gatesworth Avenue at about 10:25 p.m. Thursday. Police have said only that the victims were adult men and were pronounced dead at the scene. By Friday, the case had become a regional homicide investigation led by the St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons, a move that underscored the seriousness of the killings and the limited public answers available in the first day of the inquiry.
According to police, officers with the Country Club Hills Police Department were first sent to the block after a report of a shooting. When they arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds. Both were dead at the scene, according to statements released Friday. Authorities did not publicly identify the men, say where on the block they were found, or describe whether they were believed to have been together when the gunfire started. Police also did not say how many shots were fired, whether anyone nearby reported hearing an argument, or whether investigators recovered a vehicle connected to the attack. What authorities did make clear was the timing: the call came in at roughly 10:25 p.m. Thursday, placing the violence late in the evening in a small residential community in north St. Louis County. By Friday morning, the shooting was being treated as a double homicide rather than a death investigation with unresolved cause.
County police said no suspects were in custody as of Friday, leaving open the most basic questions in the case: who fired the shots, whether the victims were targeted, and whether investigators believe the gunman or gunmen knew the men who were killed. Officials did not announce any arrests, release a suspect description or describe evidence gathered at the scene. They also did not say whether witnesses had come forward or whether surveillance video from homes, businesses or passing traffic might help establish a timeline. In the first public account, police referred to the victims only as two men, while a county police news release described them as two adult males with apparent gunshot injuries. That wording suggested investigators were still working through the earliest steps of the case, including confirming identities, notifying relatives and waiting for medical examiner procedures that often follow violent deaths. As of Friday, authorities had not described a motive and had not said whether the killings were believed to be random, personal or connected to another crime.
The setting adds important context to the case. Country Club Hills is a small municipality in north St. Louis County, with the city describing itself as home to 998 residents in 2022 and located near the intersection of Lucas Hunt Road and West Florissant Avenue. The city says it was incorporated in 1943. In a community of that size, a double killing is likely to send a shock well beyond the immediate block where it happened, especially when police have not publicly named a suspect or explained what led up to the shooting. Country Club Hills has its own police department, but the city asked St. Louis County police detectives from the Bureau of Crimes Against Persons to take over the investigation. That is a notable procedural step because it places the case in the hands of a county unit that handles major violent crimes and works homicide scenes across multiple municipalities. The transfer also suggests local officials wanted additional investigative resources brought in quickly during the first hours after the shooting.
The next phase of the case is likely to center on evidence collection, witness interviews and forensic review, though police had not publicly detailed those steps Friday. Authorities had not announced charges, an arrest warrant, a press conference or a court hearing by the time the initial reports were published. They also had not released the victims’ names, ages or hometowns, information that often follows confirmation of identity and family notification. Investigators asked for tips from the public, directing people with information to call the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210 or CrimeStoppers at 1-866-371-TIPS. Those requests indicated detectives were still in the evidence-gathering stage and were seeking help to fill gaps in the timeline before and after the shooting. For now, the legal posture of the case remains simple and unresolved: two men are dead, the deaths are being investigated as a homicide, and no one had been publicly named as a suspect or defendant by Friday.
By daylight Friday, the official language surrounding the shooting remained spare, but that silence was part of the story. Investigators had moved quickly enough to take over the case, yet slowly enough in public to avoid saying more than they could confirm. The city’s own website describes Country Club Hills as a close-knit community committed to safety and neighborhood life, language that stood in sharp contrast to the violence police were sorting through on Gatesworth Avenue. The only public voices in the first hours came through brief institutional statements rather than live remarks at a news conference. County police said the men were found suffering from gunshot injuries and that both were pronounced dead at the scene. Beyond that, residents and relatives were left waiting for the details that often define the direction of a homicide case: names, motive, suspect information and some account of what unfolded in the minutes before officers arrived.
As of Friday, the case remained an open double homicide investigation, with county detectives leading the inquiry and no arrest announced. The next public milestone is likely to be the release of victim identities or new information from St. Louis County police as detectives continue work on the shooting that began with a 10:25 p.m. call Thursday.
Author note: Last updated April 10, 2026.