On that much police and Ella Carlton agree. Other details are in dispute.

Carlton and his brother followed the man to get the sweatshirt back, Ella Carlton said. Police said the man didn’t know he was being followed, but Ella Carlton suspects the man lured them to a secluded part of the park.

After they stopped, Carlton leaned into the other man’s truck, police said, and the man, fearing for his life, shot Carlton. Ella Carlton, however, says her brother-in-law told her that her husband was shot standing at least four feet from the man’s truck after putting his hands in the air. Carlton died at the scene in the 3600 block of Loughborough Avenue.

The shooter then drove to the 6600 block of Idaho Avenue, not far from the park, and called police to report the shooting, police said.

“I feel like he could have at least fired a warning shot,” Ella Carlton said. “It was nonsense. Everybody’s a cowboy in St. Louis. St. Louis needs to really stop being the West. Everybody needs to put away their guns for a better use. That’s for the Army — for war — not when you’re already here. Not when you’re free.”