Crime & Safety

Police Investigate Heartfelt Graffiti at Tyler Dasher Grave

Is Tyler Dasher still in your thoughts?

STLToday reported Wednesday that St. Louis County police are investigating a marking that changed the wording on the headstone of baby Tyler Dasher, whose murder shocked the Affton community.

The headstone reads "I wish you a beautiful peaceful lullaby to grace your eternal rest." The graffiti in black marker wrote the word "We" over where the sentence said "I."

The recent marking was discovered by Dasher's grandmother, and has since been removed.

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One-year-old Dasher was along River Des Peres Parkway after being reported missing by his mother Shelby Dasher, 20, of Affton. Police say the mother confessed to killing her son, and she has now .

Both friends and strangers mourned Tyler Dasher's death, piling stuffed animals and other tributes under a tree near where he was found and .

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