RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) — A man who was fatally shot outside a suburban St. Louis bowling alley was a minister.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Rev. Demetrius Stewart was leaving a bowling alley in Richmond Heights after a date night with his wife and other couples at Tropicana Lanes. Police say they were in their car Friday when a fight involving a group of people the Stewarts didn't know spilled onto the parking lot.
Donte McGary is charged with first-degree murder in Stewart's death. The 45-year-old was an associate minister at West Side Missionary Baptist Church, who also worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
His wife, Shantana Stewart, told the Post-Dispatch they'd had no interaction with the people who got in the fight, and police said it appeared Demetrius Stewart was an innocent bystander.
There will be a vigil for Stewart at 7 p.m. Monday in Hyde Park, in North Saint Louis near the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity House.