The man that has been accused of murdering the retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn while he was responding to a robbery at a pawn shop back in the summer of 2020 is slated to stand trial on the 15th of July.
At age 77, Dorn was killed in the wee hours of the morning of June 2nd, 2020, in the wake of a burglar alarm going off at a pawn shop owned by his friend, Lee’s Pawn Shop and Jewelry. On the evening of Dorn’s murder, a group of four officers in St. Louis were shot and many dozens of other businesses were burglarized or otherwise damaged, reported the Associated Press.
“Dave Dorn was a great man. He was fair; the sharpest, cleanest guy,” stated David Ellison, a retired St. Louis police officer, about Dorn in the wake of the shooting.
The man in question was 24-year-old Stephan Cannon, and he was arrested back in June of 2020 on charges of first-degree murder in relation to Dorn’s death. Cannon is also officially charged with stealing, burglary, armed robbery, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Back around the first of the year, Cannon’s original trial date was slated for the 18th of July but the whole thing did not get much notice. This updated schedule for the trial showed up on the court’s docket this past Friday.
Riots burned their way through St. Louis and a large number of other major cities around the U.S. back in 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the inception of a massive amount of civil unrest. A few hundred Black Lives Matter protests ended up deteriorating into massive riots, inflicting hundreds of millions of dollars in damages across the major cities.
The widow left behind by Dorn recounted the evening of her husband’s death in a speech that took place at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
“As I slept, looters were ransacking the shop. They shot and killed David in cold blood, and then live-streamed his execution and his last moments on Earth,” stated Ann Dorn as part of her speech from August 2020. “David’s grandson was watching the video on Facebook in real time, not realizing he was watching his own grandfather dying on the sidewalk.”
This past June, David Dorn was given the Congressional Medal of Honor Citizen Award, posthumously, due to his carrying out an extraordinary act of courage and sacrifice on the night he was killed. Decisions on who get the award are made by a panel of Medal of Honor recipients each year.