I’m writing today about an article that gives an account of the second victim in Wednesday’s deadly shooting at a rap music recording studio in the urban core of Kansas City, MO.
One of the victims was “Maestro” Mark Williams, 53. There is so far no motive for the murders and no suspects. Apparently, witnesses claim that at 12:30pm on Wednesday, “someone” barged into the studio and open fired, killing Williams first, then another man named Antonio Jones, 53. The article quotes those familiar with the Rap Studio & with Williams, the owner of the studio, as “not knowing (Antonio Jones) or why he was there.
Kansas City is off to its most murderous year in almost 20 years. Surprisingly, according to the KANSAS CITY MISSOURI POLICE DEPARTMENT DAILY HOMICIDE ANALYSIS for January 31, 2013, only 3 of the 15 murders are considered“Cleared”, while the other 12 are still being investigated. Also eye opening in this Analysis is the percentages of KCMO murders over the past 4 years that have occurred inside the urban core. The East Patrol Station in the past had never had over 2 murders thus far in January, and this year they are at 6. The comparison of murders between the urban core and the suburbs is ridicules. In the past 4 Januaries, there has been only 1 murder out of the North Patrol or Shoal Creek Patrol, and only 6 out of the South Patrol. Compare that with 35 murders in the past four Januaries within the East, Central, and Metro Patrols, and you can really see where the great majority of murder in Kansas City occurs…within the urban core. The real question is this: what’s it going to take to stop the violence?
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