gun violence

One juvenile has been arrested and charged in the shooting, but Terrell Bell's mother says other people involved in his killing have not been caught.

A group of African American pastors is distancing themselves from departmental leadership over video they say conflicts with police accounts of the killing of Malcolm Johnson.

Johnson's family is demanding the officer involved by fired and charged in the shooting. Meanwhile, the state highway patrol is defending their investigation.

Lantz Stephenson, Jr., 17, was reportedly acting suicidal in the park Sunday morning and aggressively approached police with what law enforcement initially described as a "handgun."

Only two years out of journalism school and Okeson-Haberman had already made a name for herself as a thoughtful, aggressive and compassionate reporter.

As Black men continue to die at the hands of law enforcement, Black mothers reveal the dread, the worry, and now the anger they live with every day.

Black mothers talk about the constant fear they have for their children's safety, we bring back a conversation from 2018 and we remember KCUR reporter Aviva Okeson-Haberman, who died Sunday.

The shooting broke out during an attempt to arrest a man in a gas station who was suspected in a previous assault.

Kansas City has had 173 homicides so far this year, a new record, and each will be remembered on Monday at Wornall Road Baptist Church during its "Longest Night" service.

Gun-related suicides among young adults in Missouri had been declining since at least 1999, according to a new analysis from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. But after the state eliminated its permit-to-purchase requirement in 2007, firearm suicide rates among adults ages 19 to 24 jumped by nearly 22%.

Kansas City officials say they have been considering shutting down the bar, which was the site of two shootings in 2020, for a long time.

Community leaders say violent crime is a “public health crisis” as Kansas City faces its deadliest year on record.