No Protest & No Cash After Teen Shot Dead On Kansas City Street

In this post we want to share a quick juxtaposition on urban core and even suburban life when violence can't be used to garner political capital.

First, a tragic story from Northeast . . .

Officers were called to investigate a shooting in a residential neighborhood near 69th Street and Bellefontaine Avenue around 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 10, when they found the victim in the street.

That victim has now been identified as 16-year-old Victor Jimenez Diaz.

But the hits don't stop there as so many locals will find that their tragedy isn't widely celebrated or even documented when a political narrative isn't readily available . . . 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City police say shooting victim found in street last week was a 16-year-old boy

The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department says a shooting victim found in the street last week has been identified as a 16-year-old boy. Officers were called to investigate a shooting in a residential neighborhood near 69th Street and Bellefontaine Avenue around 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 10, when they found the victim in the street.

Olathe police identify 2 teens killed in Saturday double homicide

OLATHE, Kan. - Olathe police identified two teenagers as the victims in a double homicide Saturday evening. Jessica Hicks, 19, of Olathe, and Monterrio Spenser Jr., 18, of Kansas City, Missouri, were shot and killed around 4:45 p.m. at an apartment complex in the area of North Rogers Road and West 126th Street.

Family devastated after losing 18-year-old in Olathe double homicide

OLATHE, Kan. - A Kansas City-area family is devastated after losing a loved one over the weekend in a double homicide. Olathe Police said 18-year-old Monterrio Spenser Jr. and 19-year-old Jessica Hicks were killed Saturday near W. 126th Street and N. Rogers Road.

As gun violence reaches record levels in the US, an underlying trauma may be building up

As more communities reel from deadly mass shootings - including Dadeville, Alabama, where four people were killed and 28 injured at a Sweet 16 birthday party over the weekend - there's evidence that the trauma of gun violence in the United States is taking a collective toll on the nation's

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