Kent Hamm

Kent Hamm was injured on Sept. 10 in the 4800 block of Cote Brilliante Avenue. After being shot in the head, he crashed his vehicle into a building in the Kingsway East neighborhood. He died Oct. 18. The St. Louis medical examiner ruled on Dec. 16 that the death was a homicide. Hamm lived in the 4700 block of Cote Brilliante. A few days after the shooting, police arrested a 35-year-old man for assault. Prosecutors charged Jonathan Crowder with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. Crowder lives in the 9700 block of Lorna Lane in unincorporated St. Louis County.