KC homicide

After a near-record year for homicides, Mayor Quinton Lucas urges Kansas Citians to start the new year right: without deaths due to celebratory gunfire.

Kansas City, Missouri, saw a record 180 homicides in 2020, and 2021 is on track for another deadly year. Inevitably, the trauma from this gun violence makes its way to students, forcing Kansas City Public Schools to rethink its approach to education and discipline.

Derrick D. Wren Jr., 28, was charged Wednesday with shooting three-year-old Marcus Haislip III in May 2017. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker urged people to find other ways to resolve conflicts than “to pick up a gun.”

A Johnson County man received probation after pleading guilty to two felonies resulting from a drug deal. The victim’s mother wonders why her son is dead and one of the guilty men is free.

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.

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

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 child is the second young child to fall victim to homicide this summer, and the sixth so far this year.

Missouri's 2020 special session on violent comes to an abrupt ending after House fails to consider several of Gov. Mike Parson's proposals.

In response to a recent editorial in The Kansas City Star U.S. Attorney disputes claims that Operation LeGend's success has been overstated.

How effective the influx of federal agents into Kansas City has been, an Olathe teacher explains why she began tracking COVID-19 cases among U.S. schoolchildren, and what was behind a Missouri high school league's decision to play fall sports.

A coalition of civil rights organizations are opposed to the operation, with many saying it's an “overreach” that doesn’t address the root causes of violence.