Tyrone V. Frye was the man shot to death at 36th and Wabash Tuesday night, according to a report in The Kansas City Star.
Frye, 27, "may have been trying to rob people on a porch near" the intersection, which ended with Frye dead and another man wounded.
Court records show Frye had a string of arrests for marijuana possession, driving on a revoked license and unlawful use of a weapon, dating back to 2001.
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While I have no knowledge of the immediate circumstances that led to this killing, the summary of Mr. Frye's legal problems is numbingly familiar. How many people whose lives have been cut short by inner-city violence began their journey down that path with "a string of arrests for marijuana possession," or other such "crimes?" The corrosive effects of our national "war on drugs" have been common knowledge for a long time, yet we still plug away at it; filling jails and helping to ruin lives. Taking off from Kate's point, one of the ways to "invest" in the people who live in troubled neighborhoods would be to begin a withdrawal from the insanity of our drug policies.
Let personal records also reflect that Tyrone Frye was a sweet boy, a boy I will remember as someone I built forts and played kickball with as a child, a boy who was always tripping to run as fast and good as his older brother "Chum," or Christopher, who he loved and looked up to dearly. Who knows what lead him off this path and into other things, but the truth is he was so much more than just another casualty of violence or a society that knows this kind of violence is ravaging neighborhoods yet nothing is really done about it to invest in the people there, to stop this from happening. May his family and friends always remember his loving spirit.
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