Mom pleading for help after 15-year-old girl is killed in Gravois Park neighborhood
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A mother is pleading for the community to help find who shot and killed her 15-year-old daughter, Dornae Hayes.
On Tuesday, St. Louis police released a video showing individuals believed to be involved in the fatal shooting.
Maurreusa Wallace told First Alert 4, “I’m just begging and asking everybody to just help us get justice for her because her life was taken for nothing.”
“She loved to do TikToks. She loved to dance. She loved to be around people,” said Wallace.
According to the teenager’s family, Dornae was a good kid who was going through a phase. Her mom said she ran away two weeks before she was found shot on a back porch at the intersection of Miami and Iowa after 11 p.m. on May 21, 2024. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“We begged our Darnae to come home, but she chose to stay in the streets with its so-called friends. And now that she’s gone,” said her mother.
Wallace believes the company her daughter kept is what led to the incident. Eight months later, SLMPD released a video from the night of the crime. It shows two suspects walking up to the home and walking away. It later shows the suspect in the white hoodie shooting while being driven away.
Wallace hopes people will come forward with information. She said she’s heard different stories about what happened to her daughter that night.
She told First Alert 4, “It’s a lot of kids. I feel involved in the story like I don’t have the complete story.”
Dornae’s family said they won’t be able to rest until justice is served.
Anyone with information that can assist police is encouraged to call the Homicide Division directly at 314-444-5371 or CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).
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