It all began Friday night around 8:29 when Kansas City firefighters were called to a house fire in the 5400 block of East 28th Street. Firefighters discovered the body inside the home. Police believe that the fire was intentionally set, and they're investigating the death as a homicide. UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 25-year-old Nathan Davis.
Less than two hours later, police were investigating a triple homicide at 24th and Lister.
A shots-fired call was received around 10:17 p.m. Police found the bodies of 50-year-old Anthony Richardson, 53-year-old Mary Richardson and a yet-to-be-identified third victim (police had not notified the family). No arrests have been made in that case. UPDATE: KMBC reported Monday that an arrest was made in the case. KCTV5 reported that the suspect was the boyfriend of one of the victims. The TV station added that Anthony Richardson was a friend of Kansas City Police Chief Daryl Forte's.
The next morning, detectives were investigating a double homicide. Claude Carson, 52, and Alphonso Nicholson, 42, were found shot to death in the 2500 block of Benton around 6:33 a.m. Saturday. No arrests have been made in this case, either. UPDATE: Kansas City police say an arrest has been made in this double homicide. Charges are expected to follow soon.
I believe this puts Kansas City, Missouri, at 96 homicides for 2011.
Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forte announced Saturday morning that additional police officers would be dispatched throughout the city.
Sunday morning brought two shootings, including that of a 22-year-old woman who was shot at 39th Street and Southwest Trafficway. KMBC reported that the woman suffered critical injuries. The woman's boyfriend told KMBC that his girlfriend had walked to the grocery store to buy bread and realized that a man was following her on her walk home. The woman reportedly turned around, and the man was pointing a gun at her chest. She was shot in the arm as she turned, and the bullet went through the woman's chest.
If you have information about any of these cases, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477 or the Homicide Unit at 816-234-5043.
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justthefactsmaam-In a sense, Nicole is right.
We are ALL better off if KC doesnt have all those problems. It matters not where in the burbs you live. If KC has a bad reputation, so does the burbs, to a certain degree. If I'm from NY, and considering moving to JOCO, having KC that close affects my evaluation of the move. After all, it is THE nearest thriving metropolis.
I am with you on responsibility though. We need better parents in the hood, or the hood will remain stagnant. Help MUST come from within.
If you see a murder and dont do anything about it, it basically says you condone it, and I'll have none of that.
...so Nicole....who's responsible for the Lack of Parenting, the lack of education and lack of resources....but the very people who live in those neighborhoods. These crimes are happening in a concentrated area of the city.....if the people that live there don't value education, and don't provide supervision to their offspring and kill people they know....family members, friends, neighbors, etc...how can someone on the other side of town do something about it or be expected to care?
For you to act like people all over the greater Kansas City area can somehow fix this is pretty simple minded. But let's keep selling Don't Snitch t-shirts and see how that works of for the hood.
HERE IS THE PIN MAP OF CRIME YOU WANT
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mo/kansas-city/crime/
Well behaved, employed residents of the urban core sick of the killa city mayhem- come to Lees Summit! Actual grocery stores, front yards without needles, parks, lakes and schools you can send your children to. And a violent crime rate 1/13th the rate of KCMO.
I resent those comments and to keep this intellectual - not ALL urban dwellers resort to this kind of behavior. It distubs good decent hard working people that there are SICK destructive people in EVERY walk of society. You have to look at the BIG picture. Lack of Education, Lack of Resources, Lack of Parenting = Mayhem for some. I use to reside in the inner city and love my people - not ALL of us act in this manner. Most of these murders are people that KNOW each other and have some sort of issue. Doesnt make it right - but its true. There are a lot of serial killers out here that go out murdering and torturing innocent people FOR NO REASON that are not from the URBAN community. Sick is sick - Destructive behavior is destructive behavior no matter where you are from. It doesnt matter of pin pointing the area - this is our city and who wants our city to be known for this? Its ALL of our problems. The young lady walking near 39th and southwest trafficway wasnt in the HOOD - but nevertheless there is an issue...THAT could have been any one of us so it doesnt matter WHERE it is...Crime is Crime in OUR community and it should be dealt with.
The question isn't "where is the problem" it's WHO is the problem.
Where is the problem:
KCPD does those maps every year. If you google around, I'm sure you can find some of them. I think roughly, 23rd to 35th from Troost to further east is the hot spot, and I'm not at all sure it actually extends to 35th...maybe more like Linwood. Also, I think Aim4Peace at City Hall could supply them. Anyhow, the info is out there and readily available.
could we get a pin put in a street map for every murder in this city over the last 5 years? Then take the cops and social workers and money and focus on that general area.?
Would love to see the map.
After all my years as a liberal pro-integrationist lover of authentic equality, I have to now and finally, succumbed to racism. Not the ignorant, red-necked kind, but the kind that says that, for some incredibly bizarre and ugly reason, there exists in this country a culture that believes in theft, rape and murder as a sensible lifestyle. That litter, dirt, destruction, and total indifference to the maintence of a civilized society is permissible and justifiable. That "gimme" is the motto, from welfare to office pot lucks to Halloween trick-or-treating are merely opportunities to Get Some, with no thought to giving or contributing or cleaning or donating...that tipping waitstaff or commiting to charitable contributions is wasteful. I hate making this decision. I have faith in Rachel Riley, and I believe she is sincere and genuine. I wish her the best. For the rest? Enemies of decency and fairness. I give up. I shudder to think of this city in thirty years. Glad I won't be here.
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