Jean Peters Baker

The officer is charged with using excessive force against the teenager, who pleaded ‘I can’t breathe.’

Lucas says planning for the violence prevention framework has been in the works for nearly a year, but some neighborhood groups say the announcement took them by surprise.

It is not just homicides that are vexing Kansas City police. Non-fatal shootings are up 26% year-to-year, according to KCPD data. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says casework is filed in only 19% of those attacks. She calls that "a pathetically small number."

The killing of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot while asleep in his bed, is among the many violent crimes during a summer of record-breaking homicides and heartbreak.

Coleman, a fierce advocate for young sexual assault survivors, took her own life on Tuesday. “She was so brave but she was tired and scared,” her mother wrote on Facebook.

The two officers were indicted in May on misdemeanor charges in the beating of Breona “Briya” Hill, but a grand jury upped the charges to felonies after two law enforcement trainers said the officers’ actions weren’t justified.

After vandals defaced the statue downtown, Jackson County Executive Frank White said it is time to remove it and the one in Independence

Eric J. DeValkenaere, who has been suspended from the Kansas City police force, remains free on a $30,000 bond.

Lamb, 26, was seated in his pickup truck as he was backing into his garage when he was shot to death.

The number of homicides in Kansas City, Missouri, is on track to break records. Jackson County's top prosecutor says police and prosecutors can't stem the tide alone.

The Jackson County prosecutor discusses a climbing homicide count in Kansas City, how COVID-19 is changing summer travel plans, and the rise in demand for home delivery services.

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