Jaran Rogers

Police were called to Kennerly for a “supposed sudden death.” St. Louis homicide detectives are investigating the killing. Police said they have no suspects. The scene was in the city’s Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood, north of Martin Luther King Drive. Rogers lived in the 2200 block of Luxmore Drive, in unincorporated north St. Louis County. On Monday, St. Louis County police had taken a missing person report on Rogers, said St. Louis County police Officer Adrian Washington. Rogers had last been seen on a doorbell camera Monday afternoon, leaving the home on Luxmore where he lived with his mother, said Doug Inman, a former youth pastor at the First Baptist Church in Ferguson. The mother’s doorbell camera showed him walking to his car and driving away, Inman said. Inman said Rogers had “a heart of gold,” was active in the church youth group and went on a mission trip to Texas. When Inman left First Baptist Church in June and gave his final sermon there as associate pastor, Rogers came to hear him speak. “He came up beforehand and gave me a hug. I said, ‘Thanks for coming,’ and he said, ‘I wouldn’t miss it,’” Inman said. “I’m sad and numb, and it just hurts to lose another student, another person who had a bright future,” Inman said.