Family of woman fatally shot at North City gas station in 2025 file wrongful death suit against gas station

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The family of a woman shot and killed in 2025 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the north St. Louis City gas station where it happened.

Tyieshia McDowell, a 47-year-old mother, had been out with her daughter, Natijia McDowell, on Natijia’s birthday when the shooting happened.

Police were called to the Gulf gas station at 5750 Natural Bridge Avenue on July 31, 2025, for a shooting. Tyieshia was shot in her car while Natijia was inside the gas station building.

Police say that Tyieshia was unconscious but breathing when they arrived. She was taken to the hospital where she later died on Aug. 2, 2025.

Tyieshia’s children, Natijia McDowell and her son Nazir Johnson, and her mother, Everlene Williams, filed the wrongful death lawsuit on Nov. 5, 2026. The case is brought against Ayush One, LLC, the gas station’s owner, and Phillips 66 Company.

The lawsuit alleges that the gas station has seen multiple instances of violent crime and has not taken steps to prevent further events. The suit claims that from the start of 2024 to when Tyieshia died, police received over 160 calls to the gas station for “numerous reports involving firearms, weapons, violent acts, thefts, suspicious persons, and various disturbances.”

The lawsuit alleges that the gas station failed to monitor the property, adequately light the property, did not have “reasonable” security cameras or security policies, and did not take preventative measures to attempt to deter crime.

First Alert 4 has reached out to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for updates on the homicide investigation into Tyieshia’s death.