The violence in Kansas City didn't stop for the three-day holiday weekend.
The first death came Friday around noon when 2-year-old Brandi Clemoens died two days after her mother rushed her to Children's Mercy Hospital with "life-threatening injuries due to obvious abuse."
A second child, a 3-year-old boy, was seen in the waiting room with
bruises on his body. Hospital staff took the boy into protective
custody.
Antonio Murray, the boyfriend of Brandi Clemoens' mother, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. At last word, police were still investigating the case.
The second homicide of the weekend also came Friday when a man was shot and
killed at a Shell gas station at 5501 Bannister Road around 6:54 p.m.
The shooting victim was found wounded in the gas station's parking lot,
and later died at a local hospital.
Police have not released the man's name, only describing him as a black man in his early twenties. KCTV 5 spoke to a woman claiming to be the victim's sister.
A woman who identified herself as the shooting victim's sister said 21-year-old Frederick Jones was in outpatient care four days per week and that they tried to keep him on his medication and out of harm's way.This was the second shooting of the week at the gas station, which happens to be the same one that spawned the "Backin' Up" song."They said they told him to get off the property because he was asking for some change," Jessica Jones said
of her conversation with police. "And that's what kind of person he is.
He disabled. He ask for change. That's what he do all day is ask for
change. Mom told him don't leave nowhere, but he didn't listen."
Sunday night, the city recorded its third homicide of the weekend when a
man was found dead inside a vehicle at Gregory and Prospect. His name
hasn't been released, but police sayhe's a black man in his twenties.
A woman in the vehicle was also shot. She had life-threatening injuries. Her condition was later upgraded to stable.
Finally, police were called to a "cutting" at 28th and Highland last night around 9:48. Police found the victim, a man in his late teens or early twenties, dead near the intersection. The cops are still looking for a suspect in the slaying late Monday.
If you have info about any of these cases, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
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