Armond Latimore was murdered shortly after he posted on Facebook about making it to his 17th birthday.
Authorities said Latimore was shot in the head outside a neighboorhood chop suey restaurant. He was rushed to a local hospital but did not survive his injuries.
In an interview with our partners at The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Latimore's mother, Chandra Payne, said she had gone to a store to buy ice cream to go with a cake to celebrate her son's birthday when she got the call with the terrible news.