Residents of a south Kansas City neighborhood are living in fear after four people died in gun violence outside a local shopping center within three months.
On January 2, 36-year-old Sam Hughes and his 33-year-old brother Jeff Hughes were shot dead outside the Loma Vista Shopping Center at 87th and Blue Ridge... Continue reading here ▶
Reginald Lamar, 48, was fatally shot inside the same shopping center in late October. About a month later, 20-year-old Dante Garth was gunned down in the parking lot.
The brothers’ cousin, Mary George, also worked at the shopping center but had decided to leave the job.
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“Every single day that I worked there I was worried that something was going to happen,” she said.
Their mother asked “What is it about 87th and Blue Ridge Boulevard” as she mourned the immeasurable loss.
“It’s just a crime magnet that’s all it is. You’ve got five abandoned stores here,” said Hickman Mills United Neighborhoods co-chair Brandon Wright.
“We need the property owner to step up clean up the property add some security make this a place where people want to shop.”