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Editor’s note: Family members identified one of the victims as 22-year-old
Nikko Manning. Read his story here. Camden Brown, 27, was identified as
another victim by his father. Read his story here.
Three people died and five were injured following a shooting early Sunday
in Kansas City, according to police.
Officers responded just after 4:30 a.m. to 57th Street and Prospect
Avenue, where they found two men and one woman shot and unresponsive in a
parking lot and the street just south of the intersection, said Sgt. Jake
Becchina a spokesman with the Kansas City Police Department.
Five additional shooting victims were taken to different hospitals by
ambulance or private vehicle and are believed to have injuries that are
not life-threatening.
Including Sunday’s shooting, there have been 97 homicides in Kansas City
so far this year, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes
fatal police shootings. At this time last year, there had been 74
killings.
Cherron Barney lives near the scene.
“It sounded like war,” she said Sunday morning near where police tape was
strung.
She was asleep when the gunshots first rang out. They woke her and she
heard a pause for a few seconds and then another round of shots. “They
need to change these gun laws,” Barney said.
Another neighbor said she heard more than 40 shots.
A cousin of one of the victims, who did not want to be identified, said
they had been at Bridger’s in Westport until about 3 a.m. when they came
to the parking lot on the East Side. Everything seemed fine, he said.
Everyone was standing around and talking when someone started shooting.
People started running and pulling their own weapons, he said.
A heavy police presence remained at the scene as of 10 a.m. Loved ones
milled around near the intersection of 57th and Wabash. Some cried or
hugged or prayed. One woman told another person to “stay strong.”
‘THE KINDEST KID’: 22-YEAR-OLD KILLED AFTER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
The morning after his 22nd birthday, Nikkia Manning watched her son die.
At 9 a.m. Sunday, she still had a smudge of her son’s blood on her face
and specks of it between the crystals on her bracelet.
“He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Manning said. “It
happened so fast. I just can’t believe it.”
After celebrating with friends and family, her son Nikko Manning met up
with his parents at a relative’s home on Kansas City’s East Side. Her
family moved from Kansas City to Blue Springs to escape the threat of gun
violence. But a stray bullet still took his life.
Nikkia Manning wanted to get out of her heels and grab a pair of green
flats from her car. Nikko asked to go with her, to make sure she was safe.
While they were next to the car, gunfire broke out at 57th Street and
Prospect Avenue. Nikko was shot, and his mother performed CPR until the
ambulance arrived.
“It wasn’t enough to save him.”
While he attended Blue Springs High School, she said her son played
football, volunteered at a homeless shelter and traveled to Jamaica to
build homes for people in need. Growing up, he won awards in school for
being kind and polite.
“My son was the kindest kid you’d meet,” she said.
Tracye Walker-White, a second cousin of Nikko Manning, said she wants
justice for her loved one and that she is tired of seeing murders go
unsolved in Kansas City.
“There is just no community unity,” Walker-White said. “We come together
in death. I want to come together in life.”
Walker-White grew up in Kansas City and said decades ago, there were
summer youth programs and places for young adults to go. Now, as the city
touts the new airport terminal and other developments, other parts of the
city have been disregarded, she said.
“I’m watching us failing our inner city, our youth,” she said.
‘HE DIDN’T DESERVE THIS’: MAN KILLED AS HE RAN FROM GUNFIRE
Around 11 a.m. Sunday, Andy Brown stood just outside the yellow police
tape and stared down the street.
His only child was lying on the ground with a white sheet covering his
body. Dozens of orange evidence cones dotted the street nearby.
“There sits my son,” Brown said.
He said it was disrespectful that Camden Brown’s body had not yet been
moved or at least shielded from the sun. Earlier, Kansas City Police Chief
Stacey Graves had said the scene was large and was still being processed.
Andy Brown said witnesses had told him Camden Brown, 27, and his
girlfriend were running when he was caught in the crossfire and shot in
the back.
“He didn’t deserve this,” Andy Brown said. He said he does not think much
can be done about gun violence. Some people believe having a gun makes
them a big shot, he said, but it doesn’t.
“People do stupid shit,” he said.
MAYOR SHARES CONDOLENCES
Mayor Quinton Lucas shared his condolences with families of the victims on
Twitter and said the incident allegedly happened at an after-hours
gathering near the intersection.
“If the business knew persons would be present, without security, selling
alcohol, and thwarting our laws, that business should be closed,” he said.
“And similarly situated businesses operating as unlicensed clubs where we
have seen countless shootings and murders should expect the same
enforcement action.”
Lucas said unlicensed businesses and Airbnbs have become major areas for
homicides and other crimes. He alleged one person was murdered in another
part of the city at what appears to be an Airbnb and said the city is
working to delist short-term rentals breaking laws and allowing violent
crime to persist.
ONGOING GUN VIOLENCE
The killings come about one month after a shooting at Klymax Lounge, 4242
Indiana Ave., just 2.5 miles away that killed three people and injured
two.
By some definitions, both incidents could be considered mass shootings.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, an incident in which at least four
people are injured or killed besides the shooter can be considered a mass
shooting. Other organizations, like Everytown for Gun Safety, say that if
at least four people other than the shooter are fatally shot, the incident
is a mass shooting.
Graves said officials talked with community members near the scene about
violence in the city and what can be done to reduce shootings. “People
start out at such an escalated point that if there’s a disagreement or an
argument or anger, some people in Kansas City are just too quick to reach
for guns,” she said. Graves said it was frustrating that the city was
involved in so many efforts to reduce violent crime, but the homicide rate
continues to climb. She said some witnesses had not been cooperative and
also said these investigations are difficult for the police department’s
officers.
They see family members who are crying and “we absorb that,” Graves said.
In May, Graves announced the Violent Crime Reduction Initiative, a
partnership between police, county prosecutors, crime-fighting groups,
federal authorities and city agencies. Since Graves hosted a news
conference announcing the citywide initiative on May 17, there have been
36 homicides in Kansas City.
Lucas previously told The Star that the new initiative addresses crime
prevention, intervention, enforcement and police reform.
“So we’re gonna keep trying, and I know people sometimes get frustrated
and say, ‘It always feels like there’s a new plan,’” Lucas said. “Of
course, as long as there are murderers on our streets we will always have
new plans and initiatives to try to get things resolved.”
Some community activists expressed skepticism in the plan and worried it
would be another violence prevention program launched with great promise
that eventually lost momentum.
“I look at it as lip service for now,” said Steve Young, who leads the
Kansas City Law Enforcement Accountability Project or KC LEAP.
Anyone who was in the area at the time and heard or saw anything is asked
to contact homicide detectives at 816-234-5043 or the anonymous TIPS
Hotline at 816-474-8477. A reward of up to $25,000 is available for
information submitted to TIPS that leads to an arrest.
The Star’s Glenn Rice contributed to this report.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article276733946.html
news:sife55$j7$1...@news.dns-netz.com:
> Leading from the basement wrote
>
>> Joe said he'd nuke China as soon as he wakes up from his nap.
>
> Give the niggers more guns and ammo. They're doing a great job
> killing each other off.
Editor’s note: Family members identified one of the victims as 22-year-old
Nikko Manning. Read his story here. Camden Brown, 27, was identified as
another victim by his father. Read his story here.
Three people died and five were injured following a shooting early Sunday
in Kansas City, according to police.
Officers responded just after 4:30 a.m. to 57th Street and Prospect
Avenue, where they found two men and one woman shot and unresponsive in a
parking lot and the street just south of the intersection, said Sgt. Jake
Becchina a spokesman with the Kansas City Police Department.
Five additional shooting victims were taken to different hospitals by
ambulance or private vehicle and are believed to have injuries that are
not life-threatening.
Including Sunday’s shooting, there have been 97 homicides in Kansas City
so far this year, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes
fatal police shootings. At this time last year, there had been 74
killings.
Cherron Barney lives near the scene.
“It sounded like war,” she said Sunday morning near where police tape was
strung.
She was asleep when the gunshots first rang out. They woke her and she
heard a pause for a few seconds and then another round of shots. “They
need to change these gun laws,” Barney said.
Another neighbor said she heard more than 40 shots.
A cousin of one of the victims, who did not want to be identified, said
they had been at Bridger’s in Westport until about 3 a.m. when they came
to the parking lot on the East Side. Everything seemed fine, he said.
Everyone was standing around and talking when someone started shooting.
People started running and pulling their own weapons, he said.
A heavy police presence remained at the scene as of 10 a.m. Loved ones
milled around near the intersection of 57th and Wabash. Some cried or
hugged or prayed. One woman told another person to “stay strong.”
‘THE KINDEST KID’: 22-YEAR-OLD KILLED AFTER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
The morning after his 22nd birthday, Nikkia Manning watched her son die.
At 9 a.m. Sunday, she still had a smudge of her son’s blood on her face
and specks of it between the crystals on her bracelet.
“He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Manning said. “It
happened so fast. I just can’t believe it.”
After celebrating with friends and family, her son Nikko Manning met up
with his parents at a relative’s home on Kansas City’s East Side. Her
family moved from Kansas City to Blue Springs to escape the threat of gun
violence. But a stray bullet still took his life.
Nikkia Manning wanted to get out of her heels and grab a pair of green
flats from her car. Nikko asked to go with her, to make sure she was safe.
While they were next to the car, gunfire broke out at 57th Street and
Prospect Avenue. Nikko was shot, and his mother performed CPR until the
ambulance arrived.
“It wasn’t enough to save him.”
While he attended Blue Springs High School, she said her son played
football, volunteered at a homeless shelter and traveled to Jamaica to
build homes for people in need. Growing up, he won awards in school for
being kind and polite.
“My son was the kindest kid you’d meet,” she said.
Tracye Walker-White, a second cousin of Nikko Manning, said she wants
justice for her loved one and that she is tired of seeing murders go
unsolved in Kansas City.
“There is just no community unity,” Walker-White said. “We come together
in death. I want to come together in life.”
Walker-White grew up in Kansas City and said decades ago, there were
summer youth programs and places for young adults to go. Now, as the city
touts the new airport terminal and other developments, other parts of the
city have been disregarded, she said.
“I’m watching us failing our inner city, our youth,” she said.
‘HE DIDN’T DESERVE THIS’: MAN KILLED AS HE RAN FROM GUNFIRE
Around 11 a.m. Sunday, Andy Brown stood just outside the yellow police
tape and stared down the street.
His only child was lying on the ground with a white sheet covering his
body. Dozens of orange evidence cones dotted the street nearby.
“There sits my son,” Brown said.
He said it was disrespectful that Camden Brown’s body had not yet been
moved or at least shielded from the sun. Earlier, Kansas City Police Chief
Stacey Graves had said the scene was large and was still being processed.
Andy Brown said witnesses had told him Camden Brown, 27, and his
girlfriend were running when he was caught in the crossfire and shot in
the back.
“He didn’t deserve this,” Andy Brown said. He said he does not think much
can be done about gun violence. Some people believe having a gun makes
them a big shot, he said, but it doesn’t.
“People do stupid shit,” he said.
MAYOR SHARES CONDOLENCES
Mayor Quinton Lucas shared his condolences with families of the victims on
Twitter and said the incident allegedly happened at an after-hours
gathering near the intersection.
“If the business knew persons would be present, without security, selling
alcohol, and thwarting our laws, that business should be closed,” he said.
“And similarly situated businesses operating as unlicensed clubs where we
have seen countless shootings and murders should expect the same
enforcement action.”
Lucas said unlicensed businesses and Airbnbs have become major areas for
homicides and other crimes. He alleged one person was murdered in another
part of the city at what appears to be an Airbnb and said the city is
working to delist short-term rentals breaking laws and allowing violent
crime to persist.
ONGOING GUN VIOLENCE
The killings come about one month after a shooting at Klymax Lounge, 4242
Indiana Ave., just 2.5 miles away that killed three people and injured
two.
By some definitions, both incidents could be considered mass shootings.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, an incident in which at least four
people are injured or killed besides the shooter can be considered a mass
shooting. Other organizations, like Everytown for Gun Safety, say that if
at least four people other than the shooter are fatally shot, the incident
is a mass shooting.
Graves said officials talked with community members near the scene about
violence in the city and what can be done to reduce shootings. “People
start out at such an escalated point that if there’s a disagreement or an
argument or anger, some people in Kansas City are just too quick to reach
for guns,” she said. Graves said it was frustrating that the city was
involved in so many efforts to reduce violent crime, but the homicide rate
continues to climb. She said some witnesses had not been cooperative and
also said these investigations are difficult for the police department’s
officers.
They see family members who are crying and “we absorb that,” Graves said.
In May, Graves announced the Violent Crime Reduction Initiative, a
partnership between police, county prosecutors, crime-fighting groups,
federal authorities and city agencies. Since Graves hosted a news
conference announcing the citywide initiative on May 17, there have been
36 homicides in Kansas City.
Lucas previously told The Star that the new initiative addresses crime
prevention, intervention, enforcement and police reform.
“So we’re gonna keep trying, and I know people sometimes get frustrated
and say, ‘It always feels like there’s a new plan,’” Lucas said. “Of
course, as long as there are murderers on our streets we will always have
new plans and initiatives to try to get things resolved.”
Some community activists expressed skepticism in the plan and worried it
would be another violence prevention program launched with great promise
that eventually lost momentum.
“I look at it as lip service for now,” said Steve Young, who leads the
Kansas City Law Enforcement Accountability Project or KC LEAP.
Anyone who was in the area at the time and heard or saw anything is asked
to contact homicide detectives at 816-234-5043 or the anonymous TIPS
Hotline at 816-474-8477. A reward of up to $25,000 is available for
information submitted to TIPS that leads to an arrest.
The Star’s Glenn Rice contributed to this report.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article276733946.html
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